Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Christopher Tignor’s “Along A Vanishing Plane”

In conception, Along A Vanishing Plane is an exceedingly contemporary creation, sculpted using violins, synths, electronics and software. Yet while

November 19, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

It’s been an eternity since 2012’s Channel Orange fell like whole cloth from the R&B heavens; entire careers and administrations

November 17, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Jeff Tweedy has always committed his most dastardly imaginary deeds, his most twisted murder balladry and malignant musical misanthropy, right

November 15, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

In a year filled with so much loss, pain and confusion, perhaps the best surprise of all is that this

November 14, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Before they started gazing at their shoes and finding their flighty, dream-pop sound in a host of TV and movies,

November 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

If David Byrne had started his love of all things Latino/Brazilian/Cuban as an acoustic-guitar-slinging hippie-ish Venezuelan kid in Rhode Island

November 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Over the course of its career (now to be at its end), Dillinger Escape Plan has been the equivalent of

November 12, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Local Natives were never meant to be a small band. From their debut, Gorilla Manor, they spun a taut web

November 12, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC