Cleveland outfit Other Girls sound like Band Of Horses sweating the Strokes, and it gets hilariously more referential from here: On the video for “Hey Fella, You Fell” (from debut album Perfect Cities on Audio Eagle), the band members inhabit the covers of classic albums, from Valhalla’s Blech (a parody of Nirvana’s Bleach—how Mad magazine [...]
Moby is the artist who wasn’t there—but only because he’s always in motion. From hardcore punk to techno to film scores to mainstream rock to the sampladelic commercial phenomenon that was 1999′s Play, Moby’s career can appear as a blur of forever-changing sounds, vocalists and moods. His palette has shifted to twilight blue on the [...]
Radiohead may have given us In Rainbows, but the reunited Polvo has prepared In Prisms, which—if you look at the cover of Dark Side Of The Moon—is like how the rainbow first started, maaan. As previously reported, the members of Polvo (drummer Brian Quast is relatively new to the group) reunited last year to play [...]
With this week’s release of Wilco (The Album), there’s no better time to reconsider Wilco’s steady progression from scrappy alt-country forebears to kings of the AAA charts. Since each of Wilco’s studio albums has been pored over, criticized and deconstructed countless times, MAGNET’s Matt Siblo looked toward the band’s output on film. Watch as Jeff [...]
Weezer has always gotten more than its fair share of contempt. We come not to bury Rivers Cuomo, but to praise him. Tucked beneath its Cheap Trick riffs and nerd-friendly lyrics, Weezer managed to record some of the best power-pop anthems of the past 15 years. And even if the band’s recent efforts haven’t lived [...]
Moby is the artist who wasn’t there—but only because he’s always in motion. From hardcore punk to techno to film scores to mainstream rock to the sampladelic commercial phenomenon that was 1999′s Play, Moby’s career can appear as a blur of forever-changing sounds, vocalists and moods. His palette has shifted to twilight blue on the [...]
Though Dinosaur Jr has seen some rough times since forming a quarter-century ago (remember when J Mascis told Lou Barlow the band was breaking up, and then the band didn’t break up but Barlow was no longer in the band?), the group refuses to quit, offering its second LP since the original lineup reunited two [...]
Moby is the artist who wasn’t there—but only because he’s always in motion. From hardcore punk to techno to film scores to mainstream rock to the sampladelic commercial phenomenon that was 1999′s Play, Moby’s career can appear as a blur of forever-changing sounds, vocalists and moods. His palette has shifted to twilight blue on the [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien (NBC): Green Day Rerun from June 2. Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Steve Earle Rerun from June 3. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Yeah Yeah Yeahs Rerun from [...]
