They’re nobody’s buzz bands anymore. But since 1993, MAGNET has discovered and documented more great music than memory will allow. The groups may have broken up or the albums may be out of print, but this time, history is written by the losers. Here are some of the finest albums that time forgot but we [...]
Long before any collaborations with Ben Gibbard, Jenny Lewis, Conor Oberst or Grizzly Bear, Jimmy Tamborello—otherwise known as Dntel (or one-half of the Postal Service)—sat down with his Kurzweil K2000s and some basic MIDI sequencing software and recorded two albums, Early Works For Me If It Works For You and Something Always Goes Wrong. These [...]
For the Handsome Family, upcoming album Honey Moon—a collection of love songs due April 14—is a startling left turn. The husband/wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks still deals in spectral bluegrass and noirish folk forms on its ninth album, but gone are the ghosts and murder ballads that had painted them into a gothic-Americana [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? They let musicians onstage! Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Colbert Report (COM): Kris Kristofferson Late Night With Conan O’Brien (NBC): Boz Scaggs Late Late Show (CBS): Glen Campbell Tonight’s lineup looks an awful lot like the used vinyl bin [...]
Matthew Houck grew up listening to Willie Nelson’s slow-motion drawl emanating from his dad’s turntable. It follows, then, that Houck’s current band, Phosphorescent, would be steeped in the kind of conceptual Americana that Nelson invented during the outlaw-country movement of the mid-to-late-70s. For his fourth full-length, Houck has returned the favor, recording a tribute album in [...]
For the Handsome Family, upcoming album Honey Moon—a collection of love songs due April 14—is a startling left turn. The husband/wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks still deals in spectral bluegrass and noirish folk forms on its ninth album, but gone are the ghosts and murder ballads that had painted them into a gothic-Americana corner. [...]
They’re nobody’s buzz bands anymore. But since 1993, MAGNET has discovered and documented more great music than memory will allow. The groups may have broken up or the albums may be out of print, but this time, history is written by the losers. Here are some of the finest albums that time forgot but we [...]
Brooklyn’s Bishop Allen is poised to release second album Grrr… March 10 on Dead Oceans. Songs from 2006 full-length debut The Broken String scored the core duo of Christian Rudder and Justin Rice a Sony digital-camera commercial, as well as a cameo in saccharine teen romance Nick And Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Despite the commercial exposure, [...]
For the Handsome Family, upcoming album Honey Moon—a collection of love songs due April 14—is a startling left turn. The husband/wife duo of Brett and Rennie Sparks still deals in spectral bluegrass and noirish folk forms on its ninth album, but gone are the ghosts and murder ballads that had painted them into a gothic-Americana corner. [...]
With a new album, Tangled Tales (Surfdog), due March 24, Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks can add grizzled roots-rock vets David Grisman, Charlie Musselwhite and Roy Rogers to the honor roll of past collaborators, a list that includes Tom Waits, Willie Nelson, Rickie Lee Jones, Elvis Costello, Bette Midler and Jimmy Buffett. The jazzy [...]
