Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Beans’ “HAAST,” “Love Me Tonight” And “Wolves Of The World”

Rapper, spoken-word artist, producer and founding Anti-Pop Consortium member Beans hasn’t released an LP since 2011’s End It All. Now

Though Jon Spencer’s rising profile in the early-’90s pegged Boss Hog as one of his side projects due to it

Despite signing to a major label years earlier, Mastodon really didn’t lumber into the mainstream until 2011’s The Hunter. At

Anders Parker has worked in every conceivable context—Space Needle, Varnaline, Gob Iron with Jay Farrar, his broadly varied solo output—but

On its first two records, White Reaper’s garage punk garnered comparisons to Ty Segall and Jay Reatard, but those really

The first decade of this century found the Old 97’s getting a little complacent. It’s not that competent efforts like

The headline for Whiteout Conditions, the New Pornographers’ latest triumph, isn’t necessarily that the adrenalized Canadian septet has crafted its

After several successful albums that leaned more toward the rock side of the country-rock equation, Seattle songwriter (and former drummer)

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania