Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Rhiannon Giddens’ “Freedom Highway”
Although 2015’s Tomorrow Is My Turn was her first solo release, Rhiannon Giddens has quickly established her identity independent of

Essential New Music: Tennis’ “Yours Conditionally”
Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley, the husband-and-wife duo that records as Tennis, met in a philosophy class at the University

Essential New Music: Sallie Ford’s “Soul Sick”
There are countless rock bands making music today, but most of them don’t know how to play rock ’n’ roll.

Essential New Music: Fancey’s “Love Mirage”
Ironic or not, Fancey’s vision of ’70s disco on Love Mirage is cheesy fun. On the one hand, Todd Fancey,

Essential New Music: Elliott Smith’s “Either/Or: Expanded Edition”
There is the “eBay value” of what you inherit; and then there is its emotional value to you. One could

Essential New Music: Sleater-Kinney’s “Live In Paris”
Not since Public Image Ltd.’s Paris Au Printemps have a band, a city, a season and a cause (well, kind

Essential New Music: Cloud Nothings’ “Life Without Sound”
For the past nine years, Cleveland native Dylan Baldi has been working out his lo-fi power-pop angst as Cloud Nothings.

Essential New Music: Entrance’s “Book Of Changes”
After a long period of self-released soundscapes and studio leftovers, Guy Blakeslee returned last fall with his first official Entrance