Thanks to Matt Sharp of the Rentals for guest editing magnetmagazine.com this week. Be sure to check out Songs About Time, the band’s truly impressive multimedia project. Tonight’s Film At 11 is a 1996 live performance of hit single “Friends Of P,” recorded for French TV. Recognize the keyboard player?
The multimedia Songs About Time is an ongoing project from the Rentals, the revolving-door band founded 15 years ago by then Weezer bassist Matt Sharp. Songs About Time finds Sharp and Co. collaborating with a cast of about 50 filmmakers, designers, producers, editors and artists. They began this year-long experiment January 1 and have since [...]
York, Pa.’s Pariah Piranha just released its debut album, People People, on Queer Control Records, a San Francisco label devoted to promoting gay artists. Produced by Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants), People People wears its ’90s alternative influences on its sleeve. (Its ripped, baggy, flannel sleeve, that is.) Download the snarling “Green Rooms” [...]
Psst. Wanna know a secret? Pavement (pictured) is reuniting for shows in September 2010 at New York City’s Summerstage. They’re up to three gigs so far; at the rate sellouts are going, these slackers are going to be playing somewhere every day next year. Download “Rattled By The Rush” … Here’s a show a little [...]
The multimedia Songs About Time is an ongoing project from the Rentals, the revolving-door band founded 15 years ago by then Weezer bassist Matt Sharp. Songs About Time finds Sharp and Co. collaborating with a cast of about 50 filmmakers, designers, producers, editors and artists. They began this year-long experiment January 1 and have since [...]
Music fan, MAGNET interviewee and Chicago Cubs TV play-by-play guy Len Kasper was invited onstage during the outstanding Minus 5/Baseball Project/Steve Wynn IV show at Marytrs’ in Chicago to introduce the Baseball Project’s “Harvey Haddix,” a song about perfect games that the band recently updated to include the White Sox’s Mark Buehrle, who tossed one [...]
The multimedia Songs About Time is an ongoing project from the Rentals, the revolving-door band founded 15 years ago by then Weezer bassist Matt Sharp. Songs About Time finds Sharp and Co. collaborating with a cast of about 50 filmmakers, designers, producers, editors and artists. They began this year-long experiment January 1 and have since made a new black-and-white film [...]
AA Bondy just released his second album, When The Devil’s Loose (Fat Possum). Not only has he refined his low-key, folk sound with some added catchy hooks, but he’s getting some of the attention he deserves: play on XM Satellite Radio and mentions in mainstream magazines such as Entertainment Weekly. Check out Bondy on tour in the [...]
It is perfectly fitting, and almost expected, that Joe Pernice would bring a long work of fiction into the world. The songs he has written for his pop band The Pernice Brothers are filled with vivid storylines and pointillist details. And Pernice has already proven his mettle as a fine fiction writer with his installment [...]
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. After coming back from a six-month trip in Europe in a VW van, seeing as many art museums as possible, I started work [...]
