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 home-recorded Wait For [...]
Drive-By Truckers frontman Patterson Hood has waited long enough for his second solo album to be heard. Shelved for more than four years, Murdering Oscar (And Other Love Songs) was finally released this month. His Drive-By bandmates help fill out the tunes along with some guests, including Hood’s father, bassist David Hood. The Athens, Ga., product [...]
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 [...]
Richard Melville Hall believes in transparency: He is open about his faith, psychology, politics and diet, whether talking to the press or writing in his online journal. Moby, Hall’s musical alter ego, is another matter entirely. Moby is the artist who wasn’t there—but only because he’s always in motion. From hardcore punk to techno to [...]
We’ve been fans of New Jersey’s finest since even before their first album came out back in 1994, so let’s just say we’re used to sitting around waiting for them to take their sweet-ass time putting out new music. (Three albums in more than 14 years makes the Wrens about as prolific as Boston, which is kind of [...]
A big tip of the pimp hat to Sir Mix-A-Lot, the past week’s guest editor, for all his posts. Here’s the recent Burger King commercial featuring Sir Mix, SpongeBob SquarePants and the King. Not that King. Or that one, either.
Sir Mix-A-Lot may forever be linked to 1992 mega-hit “Baby Got Back,” but you’d be off-base in labeling him a one-hit wonder. One of hip hop’s ultimate DIY practitioners, he was a platinum-selling artist long before “Baby Got Back” introduced suburbanites everywhere to the glories of the big, bad booty. He founded his own record [...]
Discovery, the combined forces of Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij and Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles, has been teasing fans for months on MySpace with a couple of streaming songs from its debut. Said album, titled LP, is set for release on July 7 through XL and features plenty of synth, handclaps, jarring high-hats and, oh, [...]
Spiral Stairs (birth name: Scott Kannberg) makes his solo debut October 20 with The Real Feel (Matador). You may—or, rather, should—know Stairs from his work with indie legends Pavement and the overlooked Preston School Of Industry. Download “Maltese Terrier” … In other pseudonym news, Jim James (pictured) of My Morning Jacket, for reasons maybe only he [...]
Sir Mix-A-Lot may forever be linked to 1992 mega-hit “Baby Got Back,” but you’d be off-base in labeling him a one-hit wonder. One of hip hop’s ultimate DIY practitioners, he was a platinum-selling artist long before “Baby Got Back” introduced suburbanites everywhere to the glories of the big, bad booty. He founded his own record [...]
