Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Van Pelt’s “Stealing From Our Favorite Thieves” And “Sultans Of Sentiment”

This pair of releases by New York City’s the Van Pelt, in hindsight, provided a number of significant indie-rock mile

August 12, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The wall of sound this band generates with distorted guitars, samples, industrial noise and live drums is overwhelming at times,

August 10, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If your band is going have the word “beach” in its name, your music better have breeziness in spades. Brooklyn

August 10, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s ironic that garage rock’s enfants terribles enlisted the services of Sean Lennon to produce their eighth album, because the

After a minute of simple, tender piano and tremulous vocals hearkening to the intimate, wounded balladry of Mike Hadreas’ early

You have to peel away a few layers to get to Man Forever’s identity, but the purpose of this record

The North Mississippi Allstars have been rollin’ and tumblin’ since 1996. Upholding an earthy tradition carved out by their badass

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania