Susanna Hoffs and Matthew Sweet lead the pack of recent beauty-and-the-beast duos. (Others include Zooey Deschanel and Matt Ward, as well as Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn.) Hoffs and Sweet may be the perfect assimilation of vocal chops and instrumental savvy, as shown on a pair of recent albums titled Under The Covers (Shout! Factory), [...]
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 [...]
“I guess we won’t try to surf the crowd tonight,” chuckled Peter Holsapple, patting my arm as he circumnavigated the 40 or so paying customers seated in San Francisco’s Cafe du Nord on a foggy Saturday night. The house would eventually swell to more than 60, all there to hear the heroic blend of Holsapple [...]
Thanks to James Jackson Toth and Timothy Bracy for this week’s tour of duty as guest editors. Rumor has it the Jescos are in search of a label to release Remembrance Of Things Trashed; we’d just like to point out that we don’t let these guest editors walk in off the street. We have to [...]
Given MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well [...]
Given MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well [...]
Cage, also known as Chris Palko, has been on the indie-rap scene since he was 18. (He uses his crazy teen years as the fuel for his music.) “Look At What You Did,” off the brand-new Depart From Me, turns what seems to be the story of a one-night stand into a horror tale of a [...]
They say that breaking up is hard to do, but maybe making a good record out of romantic dissolution makes it easier to endure. We’ll find out September 29 with the Swell Season’s Strict Joy, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s follow-up to the extremely well-received Once soundtrack. The LP documents the end of the duo’s [...]
Given MAGNET’s detailed coverage of the end of the Mendoza Line—a beloved, ragtag countrypolitan bar band that went up in flames in 2007—it only seems fitting that we have plenty of access to the formation of the Jescos, the new group featuring the Mendoza Line’s Timothy Bracy and Wooden Wand’s James Jackson Toth, as well [...]
It’s double-shot Saturday here in Philadelphia. We featured Black Moth Super Rainbow‘s “Twin Of Myself” (and its Go! Team remix) as today’s MP3 At 3PM. Now here’s the Pennsylvania band’s self-described “grindhouse” video for “Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise,” from the recent Eating Us (Graveface).
