If you’re like us here at MAGNET, you’ve spent a great deal of time contemplating what artists you would put together to form your ultimate dream band. And apparently, so has San Francisco’s Citay, which used the concept in choosing the name for its recently released fourth album, Dream Get Together (Dead Oceans). This inspired [...]
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
“G.I.R.L.F.R.I.E.N (You Know I’ve Got A)” is Everybody Was In The French Resistance … Now‘s response to that insufferable Avril Lavigne song. The band with the long-winded name is a project of Art Brut’s Eddie Argos and the Blood Arm’s Dyan Valdes. Argos has his fortune told through tarot cards and palm readings in the video for [...]
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): Ne-Yo Rerun from February 1. Ne-Yo performed the song “Heroes,” which you can download for free at the, uh, Macy’s website.
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
Efterklang recently made the switch from the Leaf label to 4AD, and the Denmark band’s first full-length with its new record company, Magic Chairs, dropped yesterday. After years of cultivating deftly composed pop, these experimentalists’ soundscapes continue to defy current trends. Mixed by Grizzly Bear producer Gareth Jones, Magic Chairs is a new beginning, marking [...]
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Albert Hammond Jr. takes on Guided By Voices’ “Postal Blowfish.” MAGNET’s Edward Fairchild pulls the pin. Take cover! The mythology of the Strokes holds that the band was discovered, at least in part, by Robert Pollard, after tossing a demo [...]
When Clem Snide began recording albums more than a decade ago in New York, the band’s clever alt-country songs often came across as an ironic take on Americana. Everyone knows you can’t do country music in the big city, and where did Israeli-born singer/guitarist Eef Barzelay get that twang from, anyway? After years of slogging [...]
For the release of latest song “Open Your Heart,” Los Angeles native Mia Doi Todd recruited music-video-turned-feature-film director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Science Of Sleep). Filmed in and around Silver Lake, Echo Park and downtown L.A. and using a colorful, T-shirt-clad Riverside Community College Marching Band as its cast, the [...]
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): Miss Willie Brown Country chick duo Miss Willie Brown will perform single “Bonafied” off debut album Blackout And Polaroids.
