It’s not that we didn’t appreciate the bedroom-pop talents of Eric Elbogen when he was going under the name Say Hi To Your Mom; we just didn’t want to write about a band called Say Hi To Your Mom. Under the shortened moniker Say Hi, we can proudly talk about Elbogen’s upcoming fifth album, Oohs [...]
Tommy Keene has been playing guitar hero for more than a quarter-century, both on his power-pop solo albums (his latest is In The Late Bright, out this week) and as a sideman for Robert Pollard and Paul Westerberg. Keene, apparently weary of all the critical acclaim, agreed to dole out some of his own praise. [...]
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: Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): M. Ward The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Andrew Bird TiVo is so confused! Torn between two performers with 90 percent similarity in audience [...]
When Matt Hickey started writing for MAGNET in 1994, he made the mistake of mentioning how much he loved the Replacements. From that point on, he was Replacements Boy. He reviewed pretty much every ex-Mats-member solo record and interviewed everyone who’d ever been in the band, with the exception of Bob Stinson and Steve Foley. [...]
Tommy Keene has been playing guitar hero for more than a quarter-century, both on his power-pop solo albums (his latest is In The Late Bright, out this week) and as a sideman for Robert Pollard and Paul Westerberg. Keene, apparently weary of all the critical acclaim, agreed to dole out some of his own praise. [...]
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 [...]
We’re usually wary of benefit albums, not because we’re anti-charity or anything, but because they’re rarely much more than hastily thrown-together batches of ho-hum songs performed by artists who musically don’t lend much beyond their famous names. And our wariness doubles when said benefit album is also a covers album. But we’ve got to admit [...]
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: Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel Willie And The Wheel, Nelson’s album of Western Swing material with Austin-based veterans Asleep At The Wheel, came out [...]
On the title track of his new In The Late Bright (Second Motion), singer/songwriter Tommy Keene claims, “The nighttime world has lost its appeal.” Don’t get the idea, though, that this notorious night owl likes to turn in early with a good book; he just tends to chill in his L.A. abode rather than go [...]
We’ve been fans of New Jersey’s finest since even before their first album came out back in 1994, so let’s just say we’re used to sitting around waiting for them to take their sweet-ass time putting out new music. (Three albums in more than 14 years makes the Wrens about as prolific as Boston, which is kind of [...]
