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: Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): Crystal Antlers It’s the network television debut for what might be Touch And Go’s last band (we certainly hope not). Long Beach, Calif.’s Crystal Antlers [...]
Outdated reference point or not, the anti-apathy sentiment on Superchunk‘s sophomore single “Slack Motherfucker” still seems characteristic of Mac McCaughan 20 years after he wrote it. The recently dormant Superchunk is moving again, and McCaughan also fills his time with Portastatic and co-ownership of Merge Records. As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, McCaughan [...]
One of the more pointless music-dork exercises of the ’90s (and beyond) was to speculate where Sonic Youth would land after the band’s Geffen contract expired—or, what seemed likely at certain points, when SY would be dropped. It was all for nothing, of course: Sonic Youth went on making some of its most esoteric proper [...]
We mentioned this when we told you about his annual benefit concert, but it bears repeating that Chicago Cubs TV broadcaster Len Kasper (pictured with Tommy Keene) is not your typical baseball talking head. In fact, he’s probably the only one who’s ever heard of the Talking Heads. With the season at long last in [...]
Outdated reference point or not, the anti-apathy sentiment on Superchunk‘s sophomore single “Slack Motherfucker” still seems characteristic of Mac McCaughan 20 years after he wrote it. The recently dormant Superchunk is moving again, and McCaughan also fills his time with Portastatic and co-ownership of Merge Records. As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, McCaughan [...]
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): Tinted Windows Last week we peered into the abyss of Bad Supergroup Ideas and we saw pestilence, Sammy Hagar, an undercooked burger from the Hard [...]
Outdated reference point or not, the anti-apathy sentiment on Superchunk‘s sophomore single “Slack Motherfucker” still seems characteristic of Mac McCaughan 20 years after he wrote it. The recently dormant Superchunk is moving again, and McCaughan also fills his time with Portastatic and co-ownership of Merge Records. As if that wasn’t enough to keep him busy, [...]
This roaring piece of bombastic death metal … OK, so maybe the new Moby song isn’t quite such a shocker. But “Shot In The Back Of The Head” lets you know, from the title to the last chords, that this track is a change of pace for Moby. Instrumental and eerie, “Shot” (the first single [...]
Corey duBrowa’s Over/Under entries on Radiohead and Elliott Smith prompted insightful reader comments such as “This list fails,” “[Given] the fact Smith’s gone, this seems disgraceful” and “Where’s the html tag for sarcasm?” DuBrowa once wrote a lengthy Seattle Weekly essay lauding Pavement’s 1992 debut LP, Slanted And Enchanted, which stands among the finest releases [...]
