As 2009 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Today’s entry is from April 28. Here, James Iha writes about Christopher Hitchens, one of the most entertaining and opinionated journalists and political commentators around, though we tend to actually [...]
If you happen to be living in Los Angeles, check out the French Semester during its residency at The Echo, where the hometown band will be playing every Monday in January for free. The rest of us will have to be content with a new self-released EP, Forces Afield, which is available now. Here’s the charming [...]
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. Guy One On our first date, we take his dog for a walk through Cates Park. Guy One tells me of the [...]
As 2009 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. Today’s entry is from April 21. Here, Merge Records co-owner and Superchunk frontman Mac McCaughan writes about Wendy And Lucy, one of the few movies that actually made us cry. Outdated [...]
Sufjan Stevens‘ Songs For Christmas (Asthmatic Kitty) is the ultimate in ambitious Christmas releases. It’s a boxed set of five EPs, consisting of traditional carols (all Sufjan-ized with banjos and his distinctive gentle vocals) along with several original compositions. Our Christmas gift to you is this video of the fairy-winged Stevens and band performing the gorgeous [...]
Merry Christmas from MAGNET. All day we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite classic Christmas-related videos. Here’s the Ramones’ “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight),” the perfect video for when you sober up and realize Christmas ain’t the time for breaking each other’s hearts. It’s the time for getting crappy gifts [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): Doves Rerun from October 30. Carson hosts Doves, who are supporting latest album Kingdom Of Rust.
Merry Christmas from MAGNET. All day we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite classic Christmas-related videos. Here’s the Kinks doing “Father Christmas.” In the late ’70s, Ray Davies and Co. played eating-disorder ode “Skin And Bones” as a lead-in to “Father Christmas,” so you might want to wait until your college-aged cousin is [...]
God’s Pottery is a New York-based Christian singing duo that achieved national recognition via its appearance last year on the TV show Last Comic Standing. Jeremiah Smallchild and Gideon Lamb spread their gospel through original songs such as “The Pants Come Off When The Ring Goes On” and “Jesus I Need A Drink.” Not content to [...]
Merry Christmas from MAGNET. All day we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite classic Christmas-related videos. Here’s the Pogues and Kirsty MacColl’s “Fairytale Of New York,” which you can watch while the police haul away grandpa for making yellow snow in your neighbor’s front yard.
