Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Jake Xerxes Fussell was raised and mentored by folklorists, but he also grew up in the age of MTV. He

In troubled times, music can offer a perspective on what’s going on, or it can be an antidote. Ora aspires

It’s been nearly six years since Nathan Bowles put out Plainly Mistaken, his last solo album, but he has not been slacking.

Love Changes Everything. Who is the recipient of that titular sentiment, and who is doing the loving? Given that this

Milford Graves never seemed to be that worried about making records. An early run of recordings for ESP-Disk in the

One mark of artists is that when they get really good at something, they change things up. It’s hard to

The Handover suggests something transactional. But the sound and the effect of the music created by oudist Aly Eissa, violinist

Based on the evidence of issued recordings, Bardo Pond seems to have ceased making music. While archival releases continue to

Walking After Dark picks up right where its predecessor, World What World, left off in 2021. At the time, things didn’t look so

Punk has meant a lot of things to a lot of people. For Antietam, the New York-based, Louisville-bred trio of

Things are going downhill, and Mahamadou “Mdou Moctar” Souleymane is not happy about it. Souleymane, who has given his stage

Grain is the third recording by Innode, a trio founded by ex-Radian and Lokai guitarist Stefan Németh. If you had to sum

You don’t need to be a mathematician to know that two is more than one. This axiom applies to the

Let’s start with the album title. It looks luxuriant enough to apply to a Jon Hassell LP with an accompanying,