Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Walking After Dark picks up right where its predecessor, World What World, left off in 2021. At the time, things didn’t look so

Punk has meant a lot of things to a lot of people. For Antietam, the New York-based, Louisville-bred trio of

Things are going downhill, and Mahamadou “Mdou Moctar” Souleymane is not happy about it. Souleymane, who has given his stage

Grain is the third recording by Innode, a trio founded by ex-Radian and Lokai guitarist Stefan Németh. If you had to sum

You don’t need to be a mathematician to know that two is more than one. This axiom applies to the

Let’s start with the album title. It looks luxuriant enough to apply to a Jon Hassell LP with an accompanying,

The raga is a platonic ideal for the guitarists who founded the “Takoma school” and those who have followed in

The first word on the new Vampire Weekend album is “fuck.” You heard it here first. (Unless you read that

The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for

The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major

Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on

Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits

When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means