For some, Christmas is a wonderful time of year filled with the spirit of giving, snowflakes, cookies by the fire and time well spent with a loving family. But for the most of us, it’s a time of ugly consumerism, blistering cold weather, a thinning wallet and being forced to spend too much time with [...]
Merry Christmas from MAGNET. All day we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite classic Christmas-related videos. Here’s Bing Crosby and David Bowie doing “Little Drummer Boy,” which is perfect viewing for when your weird uncle shows up at the house and asks if you want to sit on his lap while he plays [...]
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 8. Here, Grand Duchy (Pixies frontman Frank Black and wife Violet Clark) write about possibly the best film ever made. Grand Duchy is the latest [...]
Merry Christmas from MAGNET. All day we’re going to be sharing some of our favorite classic Christmas-related videos. Here’s Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for those of you snooping around under the tree to see if Santa came yet—and if he got into the 10-year-old scotch you bought for your boss, then decided [...]
Some of you might remember that time Bob Geldof gathered up some of the biggest names in British and Irish rock ‘n roll and had them record that Christmas song to raise money for Ethiopia. Well, seeing as that was 25 years ago, Fucked Up decided it was time for a re-release, North American indie-rock [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Wolfmother Rerun from November 24. Wolfmother will perform songs off the new Cosmic Egg.
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 [...]
Here in Philadelphia, we are buried under two feet of snow, 11 percent of the city is out of work, and we were just ranked by Travel + Leisure magazine as the ugliest city in America for the third year in a row. It is very easy this time of year to forgo the Christmas [...]
MAGNET’s Rome Clay picks his favorites of the year: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit (pictured), Drive-By Truckers, the Avett Brothers, Neko Case, the Felice Brothers and more.
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 4. Here, Ken Stringfellow writes about Tristan Egolf in an attempt to find any MAGNET readers who might have known the late author so Stringfellow [...]
