Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Jessi Colter’s “The Psalms”

In 2007, while ghostwriting Waylon Jennings’ bio, producer Lenny Kaye heard Jessi Colter (Mrs. Jennings), sitting at the piano singing

Clipper ships were the FedEx of their day, the high-priced, high-speed shipping option for merchants who needed to get their

Jamaaladeen Tacuma, an original member of Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, once said that the saxophonist’s theory of harmolodics—a place where

Long before Amazon’s takeover of the South Lake Union neighborhood caused Seattle to similarly ponder its existential fate, Singles emerged

Mark Lanegan has peppered the 33 years since his musical debut with equal amounts of wild abandon and measured wisdom.

Wavves have returned, minus the major label, with You’re Welcome, and if the endeavor has been working toward something, proper

It’s a crazy time, and chances are the song that’ll get the most attention here is the post-Trumpocalyptic “Delete And

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania