Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC
Essential New Music: Star City Survivor’s “Wilderness”
The members of this guitar/drums duo live in North Carolina’s Triangle, a conglomeration of metropolitan areas that contains three major
Essential New Music: Alastair Galbraith’s “Talisman”
Full disclosure: The album under consideration and I go way back. My old micro-label put one of its songs on
Essential New Music: Concepción Huerta’s “The Earth Has Memory”
Sound’s a funny thing. You can feel its vibrations, but you’ll never put your hands on them. Concepción Huerta exploits
Essential New Music: Itasca’s “Imitation Of War”
When Kayla Cohen spoke to MAGNET in 2016, she gave this explanation for selecting the name Itasca: “The word means
Essential New Music: Krise’s “Svartsymra”
The name of Norwegian quartet Krise translates as “Crisis,” and the title of its debut LP, Svartsymra, could be rendered
Essential New Music: Die Enttäuschung’s “Die Komplette Enttäuschung”
If you set about explaining Die Enttäuschung in its native language, you might fairly plead, “Es ist kompliziert.” Not because
Essential New Music: Elena Setién’s “Moonlit Reveries”
Elena Setién started making her last album, Unfamiliar Minds, just as COVID shut things down, and the stuckness of that time manifested
Essential New Music: Mariano Rodriguez’s “Exodo”
Mariano Rodriguez is a far-southern representative of the Takoma school of acoustic-guitar playing. Based in Bariloche, Argentina, he’s been recording
Essential New Music: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282’s “These Things Remain Unassigned”
Some albums are like photo portraits, artfully arranged to catch their good side from the right angle and retouched so
Essential New Music: Edition Redux’s “Better A Rook Than A Pawn”
Edition Redux is the latest in a sequence of bands that Ken Vandermark has formed that permit him to explore
Essential New Music: María Elena Silva’s “Dulce”
All is not sweet inside of Dulce. María Elena Silva is a singer and guitarist with a past in the flatlands and
Essential New Music: Lea Bertucci’s “Of Shadow And Substance”
Knowing that Lea Bertucci has made a record doesn’t mean you know what sort of music she’s made or even
Essential New Music: François J. Bonnet & Stephen O’Malley’s “Cylene II”
Have you heard the one about the composer/sound theorist who teamed up with a slow-motion metal guitarist? There you go,
Essential New Music: Daniel Bachman’s “When The Roses Come Again”
Daniel Bachman’s latest album takes its name from a tune that’s been sung by Songs Of The Pioneers, Billy Bragg