It's hard to believe that it's been more than a decade since MAGNET favorite Broken Social Scene released standout LP You Forgot It In People via Arts & Crafts. To commemorate and celebrate 10 years of the label's innovative releases, Arts & Crafts just issued a deluxe, four-LP compilation package. Included on Arts & Crafts: 2003-2013 is a [...]
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 [...]
Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate blues story, told many times with slight variations. Thankfully, Hart’s recent triumphs have counterbalanced [...]
Bay Area post-punk fivesome the Soft Moon released Zeros last year via the Captured Tracks label. The band just made a video for one of the darker tracks off the LP, "Want." This clip captures the tenacity and macabre elements that the song displays. Watch the video below.
Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate blues story, told many times with slight variations. Thankfully, Hart’s recent triumphs have counterbalanced [...]
GRMLN, the dream-gazer who recently turned indie rocker, will be putting out his debut full-length, Empire, via the Carpark label on June 4. Yoodoo Park, the Southern Californian behind the curtain, has made a lot of genre and style changes since his last EP, Explore. Check out the progression of GRMLN by downloading his cover of [...]
Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate blues story, told many times with slight variations. Thankfully, Hart’s recent triumphs have counterbalanced [...]
Watch the day of an innocent gymnast get a wee-bit hazy in the new video for "People Of The Sticks," by psych collective the Besnard Lakes. The song is the third jam off of their latest album, Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO (Jagjaguwar). Experience the new sounds of the Besnard Lakes by checking out the clip below.
Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate blues story, told many times with slight variations. Thankfully, Hart’s recent triumphs have counterbalanced [...]
Growing up in the rampant artistic pocket of Omaha, Neb., Denver Dalley has been involved in the music scene since his punk teenage years followed by being in Desaparecidos with Bright Eyes' Conor Oberst for the band's only LP, Read Music, Speak Spanish, in 2002. Flash forward to 2013 and Dalley will be releasing an album [...]
Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate blues story, told many times with slight variations. Thankfully, Hart’s recent triumphs have counterbalanced [...]
Beth Hart’s dark period has made the light surrounding her new album even brighter Beth Hart’s bio to this point in her 20-plus-year career is very nearly a blues cliché. A youthful beginning, doing great work while toiling in obscurity, struggling with alcohol and substances intended to keep her centered and grounded. It’s a boilerplate [...]
Thanks to Thalia Zedek for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out her latest album, Via. Watch the video for “Winning Hand” below.
It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. [...]
Shaun Hettinger has been involved in varied music scenes since he was in Los Angeles synth troupe the Squares a decade ago. The latest musical outlet of Hettinger is an NYC-based, '80s-influenced electronica expression called Memoryy. His debut under this moniker, Electric City, will be self-released June 4. Download the title rack off the album [...]
A four-CD/one-DVD boxed set paying tribute to Steve Earle’s time at Warner Bros. is due out from Shout! Factory on June 25. Steve Earle: The Warner Bros. Years contains three of Earle’s albums—Train A Comin’, I Feel Alright and El Corazón—along with a previously unreleased live disc and rare concert footage ... Animal Collective has announced the [...]
It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. [...]
Bassist from MAGNET's hometown heroes the War On Drugs, Dave Hartley recently issued his second album under the moniker Nightlands. View the hazy video for the LP track "Born To Love" below. If you need another fact about Hartley to be convinced of his boss status, he just competed in the Professional & Amateur Pinball [...]
It can be daunting, being in a band that winds up one of the influential acts of its day. If Boston’s Come, one of the most acclaimed groups to emerge from the early-’90s indie scene, had released nothing but debut album Eleven:Eleven, its importance for musicians in that scene would likely have been established anyway. [...]
Hailing from the same Virginian lands that Thomas Jefferson strolled in the colonial era, married synth-driven pop artists Dave Gibson and Renee Reighart are Weird Mob. They just released their debut EP, They're A Weird Mob, via the Hibernator Gigs label. Below, download EP track "School For Akters," a song that would even make the dirty-toothed Mr. [...]
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