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), [...]
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 [...]
Thanks so much to our old pal Steve Wynn for guest editing the MAGNET website this week. As expected, he did a great job. Be sure to check out his upcoming tour with wife/drummer Linda Pitmon, Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Scott McCaughey (Minus 5). In the meantime, here’s a live video of the Dream Syndicate’s epic [...]
Fifteen years after he scratched a lifelong itch and moved to New York City, Steve Wynn has settled in nicely to life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The relocation also breathed fire into a music career that already had notched landmark albums by his first band, the Dream Syndicate, collaborations with Gutterball and a slew [...]
Ever wonder what would happen if San Francisco’s Or, The Whale decided to smoke some hallucinogenic jimson weed and then write a song about it? The second track from the group’s self-titled sophomore album (due September 22 on the Seany label), “Datura” has your answer. Titled for the Latin name of the weed datura stramonium, [...]
You may have heard the economy is in the tank (and that President Obama is a socialist, but we digress). Still, you wouldn’t know it by the number of fancy reissues record companies are forcing on what is an apparently eager public. Here’s a quick rundown of a few … On November 3, Sub Pop [...]
Fifteen years after he scratched a lifelong itch and moved to New York City, Steve Wynn has settled in nicely to life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The relocation also breathed fire into a music career that already had notched landmark albums by his first band, the Dream Syndicate, collaborations with Gutterball and a slew [...]
Noah And The Whale‘s promo video for The First Days Of Spring, the band’s new album (due October 6), tells a relevant tale. It’s the story of the difficulty and necessity in bringing oneself out of a self-created black hole and venturing back into life. The video features aesthetic shots that capture the opposition of [...]
Fifteen years after he scratched a lifelong itch and moved to New York City, Steve Wynn has settled in nicely to life on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The relocation also breathed fire into a music career that already had notched landmark albums by his first band, the Dream Syndicate, collaborations with Gutterball and a slew [...]
Let’s say this: “Good Friends, Bad Habits” is not much of a departure from an Owen song like “The Sad Waltzes Of Pietro Crespi” or whatever else from 2006′s At Home With Owen. Now a bad metaphor: Pretend that sound is like a decent whiskey. With “Good Friends, Bad Habits,” add some synthesizer and electric guitar in [...]
