The Australia-based Mick Harvey can speak the language of music across a countless arrangement of instruments. His latest LP, Four (Acts Of Love), will be released June 11 via Mute, just in time to be the soundtrack for the summer months. Download the album's short-and-sweet "I Wish That I Were A Stone" below "I Wish That [...]
MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he’s been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 500 titles—from the silent era through the ’90s—that you may have missed. A new selection, all [...]
Time Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils' 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with [...]
Get geared up the beautiful and sticky summer months by listening up to the tunes by Tullycraft. The band's latest LP, Lost In Light Rotation, is out now via the Magin Marker and Fortuna Pop! labels. Watch the good-vibed vid for "Dig Up The Graves" below.
Time Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils' 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with [...]
Equal blends hip hop, loud 'n' fast punk and bedlam is the concoction that makes up WhoaBear. This is the musical outlet of vocalist/synth player Beau Dodson and stickman Andrew Dillard. This brew of organized chaos is ironically made in a practice space under an old-head/fat-cat Chik-Fil-A corporate office. We are proud to premiere "Rock [...]
Time Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils' 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with [...]
Residing in the city of Los Angeles, Torches provide their fans with smooth and driving indie rock. Their latest EP, If The People Stare, was just released 6 as a fee download. Sample the tunes of Torches by feasting your eyes on their video for "When You Wanna."
Time Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils' 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with [...]
Montreal's Reversing Falls recently put out a 10-track debut of garage jams and lamenting odes to the band members being in their 20s. The trio's self-titled LP was self-released by the band last month.Download album track "I Think We've Got A Problem" below. "I Think We've Got A Problem" (download):
Time Stays, We Go (Pitch Beast)—the Veils' 10-track, fourth release—is both patiently restrained and wildly emotional. It’s full of lush brass and sing-along melodies, moments of surf-rock guitar and beachside ukulele, and essential personal queries within the struggles of the human endeavor. It’s a small dose of Pixies, and definitely reminiscent of Talking Heads, with [...]
The Veils’ Finn Andrews never knows where he’ll go next SXSW rages in the city around me as Skype trembles with Finn Andrews’ digitally warped sentences. My recording is a mess, and my notes sparse, but I’m left with a sense that the singer/songwriter behind the London-based Veils is that rare artist among rockers—a musician [...]
Thanks to Fitz And The Tantrums for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the band’s latest album, More Than Just A Dream. Watch the video for “Out Of My League” below.
In 2010, Fitz And The Tantrums made their debut album with Pickin’ Up The Pieces. Whether the modern R&B album went triple platinum is inconsequential. Storming songs like “MoneyGrabber” put the band on Leno, Kimmel and Conan, and the soulful sound and fashion-forward sight of singer/songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick—with backing vocalist pal Noelle Scaggs and Fitz’s [...]
Man Or Astro-Man? is back in action with its first LP in 12 years. The follow-up to 20012s A Spectrum Of Finite Scale is Defcon 5...4...3...2...1., out May 21. Let your earbuds witness the progression of Man Or Astro-Man? by downloading "Disintegrate" below. "Disintegrate" (download):
Give The People What They Want is the new release from Sharon Jone & The Dap-Kings, due out on Daptone Records on August 6 ... Former Hüsker Dü member Grant Hart is set to release his new solo album, The Argument, on July 22 via Domino ... The new as-yet-untitled album from Man Man is [...]
In 2010, Fitz And The Tantrums made their debut album with Pickin’ Up The Pieces. Whether the modern R&B album went triple platinum is inconsequential. Storming songs like “MoneyGrabber” put the band on Leno, Kimmel and Conan, and the soulful sound and fashion-forward sight of singer/songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick—with backing vocalist pal Noelle Scaggs and Fitz’s [...]
Budding Northern Ireland-based producer the Cyclist makes tranced and chopped dance music. His album Bones In Motion was just released via Stones Throw/Leaving Records. Get lost in the abstract video for the title track below.
In 2010, Fitz And The Tantrums made their debut album with Pickin’ Up The Pieces. Whether the modern R&B album went triple platinum is inconsequential. Storming songs like “MoneyGrabber” put the band on Leno, Kimmel and Conan, and the soulful sound and fashion-forward sight of singer/songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick—with backing vocalist pal Noelle Scaggs and Fitz’s [...]
Australia indie-garage band Blank Realm is set to release Go Easy on May 14 via the Fire label. Catch the foursome while it's in the U.S., starting in Minneapolis on May 20 at The Hexagon. Download Go Easy's title track below. "Go Easy" (download):