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 [...]
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 [...]
That So Many Dynamos is a band-name palindrome (it’s the same spelled backward and forward) is hardly the best part of the off-time indie outfit from St. Louis. Death Cab For Cutie guitarist Chris Walla took a liking to the Dynamos and produced their third full-length, Loud Wars, due June 9 on Vagrant. The band’s [...]
For those of you living under a rock ‘n’ roll, uh, rock, the biggest news that came out of SXSW is that Neil Young‘s highly anticipated (putting it mildly) collection Archives Volume 1 1963-1972 (Reprise) will be released June 2. While there are too many details about formats and whatnot to go into here, suffice [...]
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 [...]
The buzz surrounding the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is quickly growing into a shrill forcefield of backlash—the NYC band played 10 shows at SXSW and has bloggers babbling about its Creation Records collection—but we’re here to help. Don’t be that guy/girl who still hasn’t heard the Arctic Monkeys. (I see that dude in the [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 25-year run. Lester: “The politics are not obvious” is a painting I did that a banjo player bought after seeing it displayed in 2004, when Mecca Normal played a barber [...]
Josie Cotton may have stolen the prom scene in a cult-classic film (1983′s Valley Girl, singing new-wave hit “Johnny, Are You Queer?”), but she never committed such cinematic high-camp crimes as found in vintage b-movies. Each day this week, Cotton surveys one of her favorite films and offers a song from her latest album, Invasion [...]
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 [...]
