Anton Newcombe, frontman of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, has earned his place as one of rock’s great eccentrics. And by eccentrics, we mean people who routinely drink, curse, fight and show up at a former friend’s concert with shotgun shells. Luckily, we also mean the kind of people who produce tracks like “One,” a fuzzy [...]
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): Jet You’ve got Jet playing a song on TV tonight, something off just-released-today album Shaka Rock. On the web, however, you’ll probably get the band’s regularly scheduled vulgar [...]
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 [...]
That’s right, Naughty By Nature is back and will be releasing a new album, which includes “Get To Know Me Better.” (Download it below.) The New Jersey threesome—Treach, Vin Rock and DJ Kay Gee—is back together with a sound that’s different from what the band has done in the past. The last album that Naughty [...]
Admitting that last week’s Britpop-themed Over/Under got a little out of hand is the first step in realizing that puppeteering broad-based cultural phenomena via listmaking is something best left to professionals like Entertainment Weekly and Amazon.com customer reviews. By contrast, an Over/Under list for the National is so far inside MAGNET’s batcave that we probably [...]
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 [...]
Billed as “Dublin’s answer to Amy Winehouse” by the Daily Mail, Imelda May certainly shares Winehouse’s flair for unique hairstyles and jazzy swing, but she boasts a voice with a little less whine and a lot more edge. MAGNET is proud to present the U.S. premiere of the video for “Johnny Got A Boom-Boom” from [...]
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): Kings Of Leon Oh, how quickly indie-darlingism fades. It feels like it was just a couple months ago that Kings Of Leon had more praises than church 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 [...]
On first glance, Har Mar Superstar might look like more of a joke than a pop star. With a, shall we say, robust physique and a passing resemblance to porn star Ron Jeremy, Har Mar (a.k.a. Sean Tillmann) is bringing sexy back in a defiantly unique way. But give the man credit; he knows his [...]
