Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Terry Ork arguably ignited rock’s first label when he put Television’s “Little Johnny Jewel” on seven-inch vinyl in 1975. And

Thirty-two years after the Olympia, Wash., trio flubbed its first notes on tape, Beat Happening’s amateur appeal remains evergreen. Cherry-picked

Will Johnson’s bottomless well of quality songcraft has obviously not hit a lull since the demise of his quintessential guitar-rock

Even as an avowed Ty Segall acolyte, I’m having a harder and harder time telling his various projects apart. While

French producer Ludovic Navarre scored a major crossover hit with 2000’s Tourist, achieving a sensitive fusion of jazz improvisation with

Chills mainstay Martin Phillipps has a lot on his mind on Silver Bullets, the beloved New Zealand outfit’s first album in

Ms. John Soda’s not the most reliable German electro twee-pop group out there, but when the band shows up, it

Urge Overkill was misunderstood in real time; it’s unlikely the band will join Archers Of Loaf or Pavement in the

For almost a decade and a half now, Richard Hawley has been perfecting and refining his own self-contained musical world.

Indie long ago declared its undying love for the Velvet Underground; history lessons are no longer required. But what may

It’s a 35-song, five-record boxed set of live Drive-By Truckers recorded over three nights at the Fillmore in San Francisco—if

Krautrock completism is not for the faint of heart. Consider Cluster’s Hans-Joachim Roedelius, for example, with upward of 50 full-length

Julia Holter has called this fourth LP her “weirdo record.” Coming from someone with as laudably odd a catalog, this

Like it or not, someone like Grimes (nee Claire Boucher) comes to any conversation of her music with a lot