The Happy Hollows have a lot of weapons in their arsenal, but chief among them is vocalist/guitarist Sarah Negahdari. “Faces,” from the forthcoming Spells, gives Negahdari the perfect chance to show off her Polly Harvey-meets-Kim Deal croon. The Los Angeles band has opened for Silversun Pickups and Deerhoof in the past, and while the Happy [...]
Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 25-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith. Michael is really big for 16. He crosses the patio where his 14-year-old sister is frolicking with two friends in an above-ground [...]
Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band has debuted its video for “Albatross, Albatross, Albatross” (directed by Matt Daniels) in time to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its first live show. The group will begin touring with Japandroids in the U.S. and Canada on September 5.
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (NBC): Imogen Heap Singer/songwriter and ex-Frou Frou half Heap has just released her third solo album, Ellipse (RCA). Her performance of “First Train Home” was performed and recorded on [...]
Rock Plaza Central‘s 2007 album Are We Not Horses was an elaborately plotted and immaculately conceived album that brought the Toronto band’s Northern-gothic folk/rock accolades from both critics (MAGNET named it one of the year’s 10 hidden treasures) and academics (frontman Chris Eaton’s 2004 book The Inactivist was taught alongside Horses in a graduate English [...]
Reinvention seems to be a recurring theme for Indiana’s Early Day Miners. The band has made some adjustments to its sound, taking a break from the guitar-rock epics for some shorter, tighter songs with a pop edge. They’ve also pared down their eight-member lineup to a solid quartet. The wheels of reinvention are also turning [...]
Mark Mallman is a musician of great endurance (he’s performed 52-hour marathon shows consisting of a single song) and great eccentricity (he sometimes appears as his lupine alter ego, Mallwolf). Now, as a companion piece to his most recent album Invincible Criminal (out on Badman and featuring guest vocals from the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn), Mallman has [...]
The New Zealand rascals in the Clean have a new album, Mister Pop (on Merge, due September 8). To commemorate the group’s 30-year career, MAGNET is taking it back to 1982 with “Beatnik,” from the Clean’s second EP, Great Sounds Great. Its video serves as an awesomely ’80s rebel rock-out complete with berets and killer shades.
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): Matisyahu Reggae, hip hop and Hasidic Judaism: a combination that has made Matisyahu one of the biggest modern reggae stars. He recently released Light (J-Dub/Epic), and we’ll guess [...]
