Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Matthew Shipp Trio’s “Piano Song”

Matthew Shipp’s music cycles like the seasons, and death and rebirth are part of the program. Piano Song is his

March 11, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Chuck Prophet’s “Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins”

Chuck Prophet’s albums are noted for their literary lyrics, foreboding melodies and his ironic outlook. As if to underscore that

March 9, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: The Human League’s “A Very British Synthesizer Group”

Across three vinyl LPs, the tech-heavy work of stonily cool singer Philip Oakey and a handful of knob twiddlers, drum

March 7, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Brian Eno’s “Reflection”

Fifty years after recording his first ambient piece—an art-school lampshade spinning at quarter speed—Brian Eno is still trying to capture

March 5, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Dennis Coffey’s “Hot Coffey In The D”

Guitarist Dennis Coffey was a fixture of the Detroit music scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Boasting a fleet, dexterous

March 4, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Tobin Sprout’s “The Universe And Me”

Out of the lengthy list of Robert Pollard’s Guided By Voices conspirators/collaborators, Tobin Sprout may well be the closest to

March 2, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Japandroids’ “Near To The Wild Heart Of Life”

Japandroids—the wide-eyed, heart-sleeved, gloriously unreconstructed rockers whose last album (way back in 2012) bore the self-explanatory title Celebration Rock—probably aren’t

February 28, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania