Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: A Certain Ratio’s “The Graveyard And The Ballroom,” “To Each…” And “Force”

This reissue campaign for Manchester’s adventurous post-punk funkateers is probably more than a decade late for maximum impact. The kids

Langhorne Slim has a striking tenor that imbues his songs with an aching sense of melancholy and uncertainty. On Lost

Hüsker Dü’s historical trajectory follows a rather neat three-act arc: four years of woodshedding over a series of singles, one

Jason Lytle’s debut album (reissued here exclusively on vinyl to celebrate its 20th anniversary) gets overshadowed in the wake of

No less an authority than Mudhoney’s Mark Arm has called U-Men a relic of the “old, weird Seattle,” and this

Steven Patrick Morrissey has become such a crank and a curmudgeon that it’s hard to tell when he’s being intentionally

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania