Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

A Mountain Sees A Mountain: Game recognizes game. Pianist Pat Thomas and drummer Hamid Drake may have grown up on

Bands are like the people in them; they tend to get set in their ways. But not Cleared. The sole

Guitarist Derek Bailey, one of the first practitioners of non-idiomatic free improvisation, once opined that solo extemporization was an inferior

Any time you see a band with a couple MacArthur Fellowship recipients in it, there’s a temptation to put the

Humankind cannot live by rock alone. Thus Barry Walker Jr., a geologist and teacher with a Nashville past and a

Daniel O’Sullivan and Richard Youngs share a fundamental quality: Both have spent decades making any kind of music they want.

THC Trio’s name might be alphabetically justified, but it’s a throwdown nonetheless, especially coming from a band from Austin. Saxophonist

You might think you’re busy, but are you busy like Arnold de Boer of Zea? In addition to being the

If awards were given for album titles, this one would be in the running. Without saying anything about how the

Like so many things you can say about Bill Direen, mentioning that he is a New Zealander is both true

Daylight Daylight is organized around some questions that can be categorized as either journalistic or clinical. What time is it?

William Parker puts it too plainly to misunderstand, so let’s first give him the floor: “If you haven’t heard the