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): Harper Simon Harper Simon, son of the legendary Paul Simon, will perform on Kimmel tonight. Harper has just released his self-titled and self-produced album on his Tulsi Records. The [...]
You probably know drummer Patrick Carney as half of the Black Keys, the acclaimed Akron, Ohio, duo he formed in 2001 with guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach. But Carney has been equally prolific with his own ventures, including Audio Eagle (his record label and recording studio) and now Drummer (a band featuring four other Ohio skinsmen that just released Feel Good [...]
Spells, the debut by hotly hyped Los Angeles trio the Happy Hollows, hit the shelves on October 6, but that doesn’t mean that they’re taking any time off. They’re currently on a short U.S. tour before a five-date residency at L.A.’s famed Spaceland club, and they’ve released “High Wire” as a free mp3. As usual, [...]
Drummer started playing together about the time Dan’s solo record came out? Did one have to do with the other? Yeah. He put out his solo record and I had about five months with nothing to do so I started a band with intention of making a record and playing some shows. How did you [...]
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 [...]
Live Review: Jason Lytle, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 23, 2009 Jason Lytle, troubadour! That’s what it came down to last night at San Francisco’s Independent: just the man, his acoustic guitar, an electric piano, his trademark wobbly vocals—and a back catalog of songs to pick from that is second to no one in the new [...]
Thanks to Grant-Lee Phillips for guest editing magnetmagazine.com all this week. Be sure to check out his excellent new album, Little Moon. Here’s a 1995 live video from his previous band Grant Lee Buffalo; it’s for the title track to the trio’s 1993 debut, Fuzzy.
Whether it was as the guitarist who created the gothic-western landscape of Shiva Burlesque 20 years ago, the even bigger guitar sound of Grant Lee Buffalo that rode herd in the ’90s (while he screwed up his courage to get his feet wet as a singer) or his current solo career (a wonderfully diverse summation [...]
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova caused audiences to collectively sigh wistfully with 2007 indie film Once, which won an Oscar for their song “Falling Slowly.” The duo (no longer together romantically) continues to work its magic as the Swell Season, playing to sold-out venues around the world. Strict Joy, the Swell Season’s follow-up to its self-titled [...]
Want a free Aimee Mann mp3? Of course you do. Visit her digital store to download “The Engine Driver,” backed by members of the Decemberists. (Or download it below.) Given that it is a store, for-purchase tunes are also available; all of them are in mp3 or lossless FLAC formats, with a lower-quality mp3 available [...]
