Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Buck Curran’s “Far Driven Sun”

An earlier review in these pages acknowledged that Buck Curran is steeped in guitar lore. Sometimes that manifests in pursuing

October 20, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting

October 6, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Group Inerane was part of a wave of bands that reset the defaults for northwest African guitar music a couple

September 29, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Originally released in 2004, The Well Of Memory faces a sterner test than most reissued albums by dint of nomenclature

September 15, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

The latest volume in Bulbous Monocle’s Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 reissue campaign vaults over the Matador years back to

September 8, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Thirteen years separate The Collapse Of Everything from its predecessor, Survival & Resistance. The gap seems particularly notable since Adrian

September 2, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

Hyperboreal Trio came by its name honestly. Danish alto saxophonist Signe Emmeluth and Norwegian bassist Ingebrigt Håker Flaten have both

August 25, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Tight And Loose is an artifact of a time before San Francisco became a bedroom community for the tech empires.

August 11, 2025 / ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC