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 course at the University of [...]
They’re loud, they’re rambunctious, and they’ll get you jumping all over the place in a matter of seconds. Casy & Brian sound like the energized result of the Blood Brothers meeting the Beastie Boys, who met up with Pennywise, who happened to be chilling with At The Drive-In. Casy & Brian’s new LP, Catbees, is a [...]
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week: A German choir takes on Guided By Voices’ “Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory.” MAGNET’s Edward Fairchild pulls the pin. Take cover! Amid selections from the soundtracks of Footloose, Mamma Mia! and The Lion King, a school choir from Eschwege, Germany, breaks into [...]
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 [...]
Studded leather, upside-down crosses and a whole lot of hair appear in Goatwhore‘s video for “Apocalyptic Havoc,” a song from newly released fourth album Carving Out The Eyes Of God (Metal Blade). The group takes death metal to the absolute extreme, but what else would you expect from a band named Goatwhore? With screeching guitar [...]
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 (CBS): Care Bears On Fire If teenage girls are still as angsty as we remember, it’s a surprise Care Bears On Fire aren’t a hardcore band. The pop/punk trio [...]
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 course at the University of [...]
Nostalgic rock stars don’t ask for much. In fact, a simple “please” will suffice for Monsters Of Folk, the teaming of Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, Jim James of My Morning Jacket and singer/songwriter M. Ward. To download “Say Please,” the kitschy, band-of-brothers-gone-a-little-too-choral-concert single off the quartet’s self-titled debut album (out next month [...]
Richard Thompson has taken the concept of celebrated obscurity to new levels over the last four decades. As such, his unwieldy catalog has never really lent itself to the “greatest hits” format (never mind that he hasn’t enjoyed anything resembling a legitimate hit). Walking On A Wire: Richard Thompson (1968-2009) (Shout! Factory) may be the [...]
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 [...]
