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: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): The Duke Spirit Not to be a jerk or anything—the Duke Spirit’s recent Neptune is very good—but will this band do anything for attention? Three most recent headlines [...]
Mitch Myers checks in from Austin: Since the MAGNET editors have wisely entrusted fellow scribe Corey duBrowa to burrow into the edgier netherregions of SXSW, the pressure is off and I can finally go back to hanging out at four-star hotels and eating three-course dinners. On my way to a dinner at the Driskill Hotel [...]
Despite releasing three albums, several EPs and one singles compilation, the Vines remain best known for 2002’s “Get Free.” And while the scene might have changed since then (the Strokes? Out. Klaxons? In), the Vines are still playing their signature blend of garage and classic rock. Fourth album Melodia (out March 24 on Ivy League) [...]
MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa may have spent his daytime hours doing “day gig” things in Austin, but then he donned his finest “none more black” rock attire to get out last evening and partake of the cornucopia of musical happenings going on around town during SXSW. As it happens, the Decemberists’ Colin Meloy really was meant [...]
Your music video may have only played once or twice on MTV, but it’s on permanent rotation on YouTube. We watch videos and TV performances—the good, the bad, the hilariously dated—with musicians to find out what they were thinking. MAGNET’s Robert Ham caught up with Meat Puppets‘ Cris Kirkwood to discuss a 1982 live clip 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 [...]
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): Modest Mouse We’re slowly prying the lid off the Pandora’s Box of useful and useless information that is Twitter. From band photographer Pat Graham’s Modest [...]
As SXSW turns from film to music, MAGNET’s Mitch “Danger” Myers heads straight to the edge of the festival’s seedy rock ‘n’ roll underworld … at a posh, IFC-sponsored nightclub event. As the Film Festival dies down and the SXSW Music And Media Conference begins to rear its massive head, I’m already wistful about sitting [...]
MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa arrived in Austin yesterday to begin scribing daily posts from the SXSW Music and Media Conference. It’s 79 and sunny, the smell of barbecue and stale beer is in the air, and the sounds of a thousand skinny-trousered, ironic-facial-hair-wearing indie-rock hopefuls float by on the pollinated breeze. We must be in Austin, [...]
