Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Ne-Hi’s “Offers”

If all the classic rock ’n’ roll roads have already been traveled, nobody bothered to tell Chicago upstart Ne-Hi. That’s

Mom always said, “Honesty’s the best policy.” So, up front, I’ve known Dennis Davison and Jonathan Lea, impassioned vocalist and

In the ’70s, a crafty pair of neuro-linguistic programmers borrowed the idea of “stacking realities” from hypnotherapist Milton Erickson. That

Idler than it is wild (if a touch over-modest in its humility), Meg Duffy’s warmly intimate debut stakes out her

On her previous four albums as Hurray For The Riff Raff, Alynda Segarra seemed to build on her experience as

Ever since his departure from Jellyfish at the peak of the band’s brief early-’90s run, Jason Falkner has relished his

Grails may be chief executive bigwigs on the psych-rock scene, but they’re also the reverse supergroup that’s provided members to

At its most potent, classical music should stir, move or inspire something in audiences. Emotions ought to be skewed, turned

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania