Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for

The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major

Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on

Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits

When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means

The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered

If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because

Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested

Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording

Some albums are like photo portraits, artfully arranged to catch their good side from the right angle and retouched so

Edition Redux is the latest in a sequence of bands that Ken Vandermark has formed that permit him to explore

All is not sweet inside of Dulce. María Elena Silva is a singer and guitarist with a past in the flatlands and

Knowing that Lea Bertucci has made a record doesn’t mean you know what sort of music she’s made or even