Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Father John Misty’s “Pure Comedy”

Your enjoyment of Pure Comedy very strongly depends on what you expect from a Father John Misty album in 2017.

The members of Spoon are masters of playing what’s not there. They have explored how space can sharpen an arrangement

The first “proper” album from this precociously prolific Chicago trans-genre polymath places him (at least for the moment) in the

Punk promised that anyone could do it, but it was no wave that cashed the check. For a while in

Matt North has a résumé that includes stints as a standup comic, an actor on Curb Your Enthusiasm and a

Ben Chasny, the singer/guitarist/sole consistent member of Six Organs Of Admittance, is hardly the first musician to strive to avoid

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Music-dork convention dictates that when a band has two singer/songwriters in its ranks, they can be identified as “the poppy