Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Sam Amidon’s “The Following Mountain”

After five rewarding albums of artful, evocative (re)interpretations of primarily traditional material (and the odd contemporary pop cover), this Vermont

July 21, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: U2’s “The Joshua Tree 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition”

Maybe it’s not too surprising after the critical drubbing and commercial failure of 2014’s Songs Of Innocence that U2 might

July 20, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dan Auerbach’s “Waiting On A Song”

Dan Auerbach is no longer the visceral guitar strangler that emerged from Akron, Ohio, nearly a decade and a half

July 18, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jenn Grant’s “Paradise”

What makes a record sound “overproduced”? Unnecessary lushness, maybe, but when is lushness ever really “necessary”? That’s sort of its

July 16, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Joan Shelley’s “Joan Shelley”

This Louisville, Ky., songwriter has given us some of the most purely gorgeous folk music of the decade, and her

July 14, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Los Angeles Police Department’s “Los Angeles Police Department”

Ryan Pollie turns in another collection of desolate tunes on his second album titled Los Angeles Police Department, which may

July 13, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Gift’s “Altar”

In its native Portugal, the decades-old the Gift is a moody marvel of alt- art-pop: an electronically induced ensemble led

July 12, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania