Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Pink Floyd’s “The Early Years 1967-1972: Cre/ation”
Drawn from Sony’s massive (27 discs of pre-Dark Side Floyd, anyone?) boxed set of the same name, this two-disc sampler

Essential New Music: David Bowie And The “Lazarus” Cast’s “Lazarus (Original Cast Recording)”
Spacemen have long loomed large in the Bowie oeuvre. For his debut theater work and final staged project to concern

Essential New Music: Bell X1’s “ARMS”
This Irish band has been through a lot of changes, but the core of Bell X1—singer/drummer Paul Noonan, singer/bass player

Essential New Music: American Football’s “American Football”
It’s not as surprising as it could be that a band like American Football is getting a second life 17

Essential New Music: Daniel Bachman’s “Daniel Bachman”
Acoustic guitarist Daniel Bachman has been a teenaged protégé of Jack Rose and an early collaborator with Ryley Walker. He

Essential New Music: Bon Iver’s “22, A Million”
Back in 2009, Bon Iver’s Blood Bank EP mostly echoed the backwoods folk of the band’s wildly successful debut, For

Essential New Music: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ “Skeleton Tree”
Like the specter of death’s door that haunts David Bowie’s Blackstar and the treatise on existence’s end that is Leonard

Essential New Music: Oasis’ “Be Here Now”
Two decades beyond its creation, it’s now possible to read Oasis’ third LP—bloated as it is with five songs seven