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From The Desk Of Clem Snide’s Eef Barzelay: Slim Whitman’s “Keep It A Secret”

eef100When 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 through the indie-rock touring circuit, a band breakup and a move to Nashville, the reunited Clem Snide has earned the all-American desperation and heartbreak that lies in the marrow of its latest album, The Meat Of Life, out this week on 429 Records. Barzelay is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.

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Barzelay: There’s a great radio show here on WRVU (Nashville) hosted by a kind-hearted Spaniard named Cowboy Anton. He speaks with the improbable accent of someone born in Spain attempting a Southern drawl and always plays the most exciting and obscure old country music. I first heard this song on his show and was just haunted by it. I always remember Slim Whitman from those old TV commercials that claimed he had sold more records than the Beatles and Elvis combined—or maybe that was Boxcar Willie, I’m not sure. Slim is kind of like a poor man’s Roy Orbison, I suppose, but I just love the steel-guitar solo on this song and the overall message of defiant resignation. Video after the jump.

“Keep It A Secret”:
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/KeepItASecret.mp3

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Film At 11: The Phenomenal Handclap Band

The latest single from the Phenomenal Handclap Band, “Baby” is a warm, mellow, psychedelic-soul number. Check out the video, which is like a ’70s horror film and features the NYC musicians carousing around a cabin upstate, jamming and soaking up the sunshine before they are all systematically murdered. “The surreal serial-killer aspect colored everyone’s mood,” says co-songwriter Sean Marquand. “Even when we weren’t filming, there seemed to be someone sneaking up on us in the forest.” If you live in England, you can sneak up on the band yourself: It’s touring the U.K. throughout March.

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TiVo Party Tonight: VV Brown

TIVOvvbrown4889Ever 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): VV Brown
Next Big Thing British pop/punk artist VV Brown is supporting debut album Travelling Like The Light.

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From The Desk Of Clem Snide’s Eef Barzelay: Bean Salad

eef100When 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 through the indie-rock touring circuit, a band breakup and a move to Nashville, the reunited Clem Snide has earned the all-American desperation and heartbreak that lies in the marrow of its latest album, The Meat Of Life, out this week on 429 Records. Barzelay is guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our Q&A with him.

beansalad3Barzelay: It’s good and good for you—and also very good with eggs over easy.

Bean Salad By Eef Barzelay
2 cans of black beans
1 package of frozen corn
3 spring onions chopped
hand full of chopped cilantro
1 jalapeño chopped
10 radishes cut into chunks
1 tablespoon of olive oil
squirt of lime
salt and pepper to taste

Mix it all together, then chill it for a few hours.

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MP3 At 3PM: Savoir Adore

savoireadore4583Still riding the tailwind of last year’s The Wooded Forest (Cantora), Brooklyn duo Savoir Adore is equal parts genius and magic. Imaginative and somehow different, the creative antics of Deidre Muro and Paul Hammer result in a convergence between folk and lo-fi pop. Savoir Adore recently played a residency at Manhattan’s Cake Shop, and the band’s knack for cooking up fresh beats and wistful lyrics makes its live set a must-see. Rumored to be a favorite of the rich and famous (such as Marc Jacobs), this infectiously fun twosome is a whole new Americana. Download “Bodies” below.

“Bodies” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/Bodies.mp3