Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
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Essential New Music: Brian Jonestown Massacre’s “Third World Pyramid”
It’s long past the band’s supposed feud with Portland’s Dandy Warhols. (Although how great is it that the opening track
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Essential New Music: Miranda Lambert’s “The Weight Of These Wings”
From rebellious 2005 breakout hit “Kerosene” to the deliciously cocky title track of 2014’s Platinum, Miranda Lambert has long presented
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Essential New Music: Hope Sandoval And The Warm Inventions’ “Until The Hunter”
As it happens, there are many pop-savvier moves than opening your first solo-project album in seven years with a nine-minute
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Essential New Music: Peter Doherty’s “Hamburg Demonstrations”
Word is Peter Doherty, one-time headline-grabbing Libertines and Babyshambles head who taught Britain’s oughties youth the joys of electric guitars,
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Essential New Music: Leonard Cohen’s “You Want It Darker”
Leonard Cohen, You Want It Darker. There could’ve been no greater, sadder or blunter advertisement for Leonard Cohen’s final album
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
Essential New Music: Crowded House’s “Crowded House,” “Temple Of Low Men,” “Woodface,” “Together Alone,” “Afterglow,” “Time On Earth” And “Intriguer”
Dismiss New Zealand’s Crowded House as a mere politely polished ’80s relic at your own peril. Sure, frontman/songwriter Neil Finn
Essential New Music: The Sword’s “Low Country”
Last year, the Sword issued High Country, its fifth album of ’70s-inspired, five-o’clock-shadow stoner metal. After nine solid months of
Essential New Music: Dean Ween Group’s “The Deaner Album”
Per its title, The Deaner Album is a chummy, accessible record, its occasional forays into lyrical wigginess leavened by straight-up arrangements and
