Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: SAVAK’s “Best Of Luck In Future Endeavors”

Expectations weren’t necessarily low for the inaugural effort from NYC’s SAVAK—after all, one of the group’s singer/songwriters is Sohrab Habibion

October 16, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Here, we have the third full-length from what has to be the most unfortunately named band in the history of

October 15, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

On her breakthrough 2014 album, Burn Your Fire For No Witness, Angel Olsen channeled poet-philosopher greats who managed to render

October 15, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

To these ears, Atlanta’s Gringo Star exists on both sides of a coin. Considering the group’s incorporation of a flurry

October 13, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Whoever said, “Go big or go home” should check out Ed Harcourt’s Furnaces. Harcourt is an amazing British singer/songwriter who

October 11, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Weight Of Matter is what the Brits would call a rum thing, a queer mix of songs in a variety

October 9, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The influence of Bruce Springsteen on recent indie-leaning releases is a bit confounding. After all, his radio-ready anthems were an

October 9, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

On 2014’s Sisyphus Says, the Lees Of Memory—led by ex-Superdrag frontman John Davis with able assistance from guitarist Brandon Fisher

October 8, 2016 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania