Janet Beveridge Bean surely must have earned a lifetime achievement award by now for coolest indie-rock name of all time. Bean is also the co-founder, with guitarist Rick Rizzo, of Chicago-based psychedelic art-rockers Eleventh Dream Day, as well as sharing lead-vocal duties with Catherine Irwin in twisted country-folk duo Freakwater. In June, Bean checks in [...]
Last week, the indie-pop lifers in Comet Gain arrived in the U.S. for three mid-Atlantic gigs (D.C., Philadelphia and New York), the London band’s first stateside visit in eight years. The music world at large barely blinked, but among the faithful, the sold-out shows were a ragtag British reinvasion and a reclamation of the DIY [...]
Living Thing, the fifth album from Peter Bjorn And John, is a strong indication that the acute pop minds behind 2006 breakthrough record Writer’s Block have much more to give. Despite its spare arrangements and instrumentation, Living Thing incorporates fuller melodies and more intricate sounds, ranging from dub to a sort of Merseybeat gone electro. [...]
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: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Franz Ferdinand On a West Coast jag before Coachella, Franz stops by Kimmel for one of those outdoor mini-concerts. Speaking of Coachella, how’d the Killers get top [...]
Living Thing, the fifth album from Peter Bjorn And John, is a strong indication that the acute pop minds behind 2006 breakthrough record Writer’s Block have much more to give. Despite its spare arrangements and instrumentation, Living Thing incorporates fuller melodies and more intricate sounds, ranging from dub to a sort of Merseybeat gone electro. Peter Bjorn [...]
Quest For Fire is a group of Canadian cave bears pawing at motorized garage-metal riffs and ghost-in-the-machine vocals; anyone who’s ever subsisted on a steady listening diet of Mudhoney, Queens Of The Stone Age and Fu Manchu will feel awfully cozy with “Bison Eyes.” (Note to members of this population: Please give up your weed [...]
The self-titled debut album by the Love Language (on Bladen County) is the sole product of Stuart McLamb, a total fuck-up and half-genius. A bad break-up, a drunken night in jail and a move back to his parents’ house somehow resulted in nine songs that sound like M. Ward, the Walkmen and Guided By Voices [...]
Living Thing, the fifth album from Peter Bjorn And John, is a strong indication that the acute pop minds behind 2006 breakthrough record Writer’s Block have much more to give. Despite its spare arrangements and instrumentation, Living Thing incorporates fuller melodies and more intricate sounds, ranging from dub to a sort of Merseybeat gone electro. Peter Bjorn [...]
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 [...]
