Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Agnes Obel’s “Citizen Of Glass”

Danish pianist Agnes Obel’s music is the sound of a haunted head and a haunted heart. Spectral keyboard lines and

February 4, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The Notwist was busy reinventing itself over and over again before most of us in the U.S. heard the band

February 2, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The discipline of sound design has been around since before the dawn of the talkies, but these days it refers

January 31, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Do we need a fourth volume of Mick Harvey’s Serge Gainsbourg covers? Yes, surprisingly. Intoxicated Women comes out of the

January 29, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

It may not be a coincidence that Robert Pollard’s latest Guided By Voices offshoot, ESP Ohio, kicks off its debut

January 29, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

For the last few years, change has both defined San Diego-based duo Crocodiles and made them impossible to define. They

January 28, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

We’ve seen several once-forgotten folk luminaries return to recording after multi-decade silences (Vashti Bunyan at 60, Linda Perhacs at 70),

January 28, 2017 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC