Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Russian Circles’ “Guidance”
For more than a decade, Chicago instrumental metal trio Russian Circles have set themselves apart from the crowded pack of
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Essential New Music: Rosali’s “Out Of Love”
Loving me, you or anyone is tricky and nonlinear. So Out Of Love, as an album title, is an abject
Essential New Music: Marc Ribot’s The Young Philadelphians’ “Live In Tokyo” And Charlie Hunter’s “Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth”
Between the late ’80s and the early ’90s, these avant-garde jazz guitarists hiked down some odd roads. While Newark, N.J.’s
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Essential New Music: The Ramones’ “Ramones: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition”
The Ramones’ seismic debut finally gets the deluxe rock royalty reissue treatment, complete with two alternate mixes (a spruced-up stereo
Essential New Music: of Montreal’s “Innocence Reaches”
2016 marks two full decades of of Montreal’s mercurial, miraculous existence—as well as the tragic losses of perhaps its two
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Essential Listening: Owen’s “The King Of Whys”
Mike Kinsella’s long career is a series of stylistic left turns, with Joan Of Arc, Cap’n Jazz, Owls, American Football
Essential New Music: Descendents’ “Hypercaffium Spazzinate”
On their first EP, Descendents extolled the virtues of “juicy burgers, greasy fries” on “I Like Food.” On their latest,
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Essential New Music: Pylon’s “Pylon Live”
In the late ’00s, DFA Records reissued the studio works of seminal Athens, Ga., post-punk band Pylon. Now, Chunklet Records
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R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
