We asked Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller to guest edit magnetmagazine.com this week, and he pawned it off on a bunch of his famous friends: other musicians, actors, writers and comedians. Well played, Rhett. But you can’t hide behind a self-titled solo album. Rhett Miller (Shout! Factory), a Beatlesque beauty featuring Jon Brion, is out this week.
Adam Schlesinger has his fingers in everything, it seems. His bands include Fountains Of Wayne, Ivy and the awesome new supergroup Tinted Windows. He has written tons of music for movies and owns a recording studio in Manhattan, where I’m dying to record. Adam Schlesinger recommends:
Synecdoche, New York
Synecdoche, New York is a great, rambling and insanely ambitious movie that no one in the world could have possibly got greenlit except Charlie Kaufman. I wish I could have seen the pitch meeting for it. It’s dreamlike and non-linear and funny and also intensely sad. It’s also probably a half-hour too long. But it’s refreshing to watch a movie that tackles enormous themes without resorting to a single Hollywood cliché.
