Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Weather Station’s “The Weather Station”

Tamara Lindeman may have a clear-toned, country-tinged voice that’s liable to swoop, Joni Mitchell-like, from murmuring conversational tones into airy,

January 14, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Various Artists “Even A Tree Can Shed Tears: Japanese Folk & Rock 1969-1973”

The angura (“underground”) movement in Japan’s 1960s/1970s arts scene was, like the West’s counterculture, created by children whose parents’ generation

January 13, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Stars’ “There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light

“I don’t believe people ever change/But I change,” Torquil Campbell sings on There Is No Love In Fluorescent Light single

January 11, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Wolf Parade’s “Cry Cry Cry”

Seven years after taking an extended break, Wolf Parade returns with another album full of potential anthems. Inspired in part

January 9, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dhani Harrison’s “IN///PARALLEL”

After 17 years of working on the periphery of the music business (e.g. RZA, Prince, his trio with Joseph Arthur

January 7, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Essential New Music: Brockhampton’s “Saturation III”

Hip-hop acts—let alone ones with boy-band underpinnings—rarely showcase the sheer chemistry that Brockhampton has managed with its Saturation trilogy. And

January 7, 2018 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC