Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Eric Matthews’ “Too Much World”

Eric Matthews didn’t invent chamber pop, but he certainly set an impossibly high bar with his 1995 debut, It’s Heavy

On Sorority Noise’s “A Portrait Of,” singer Cameron Boucher mumbles a little anecdote about what the afterlife might be like—“and

There’s a lot to take in on this Brooklyn duo’s second record. Thematically, vocalist Michael Berdan mines his issues, burdens

Knowing that a musician spent more than two decades in a band is a good way of telling that they

A darkness pervades John Paul Pitts’ lyrics on Snowdonia, the first Surfer Blood album since the death, by cancer, of

Tim Showalter wants you to know how much he loves rock ’n’ roll. He’s as enraptured by the life-affirming powers

There are two kinds of Sadies on Northern Passages—one group making spacey, airy country/folk rock that sounds like it could’ve

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania