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 [...]
Premiering today exclusively on magnetmagazine.com is “Sleep Child,” a thrilling folk number from Nick Jaina’s upcoming seventh solo release. A Bird In The Opera House is out April 13 on Hush Records and was apparently written in and inspired by a variety of locales ranging from sunny California to snowy Oregon. Since the album is [...]
Even as teenagers spazzing around in their suburban Philadelphia homes, Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo) and Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) offered a giddily irresponsible, snot-fueled antidote to the tiresome PC earnestness that characterized popular music throughout the 1990s. Ween began in the mid-’80s as a lo-fi bedroom act, producing a handful of unhinged four-track cassette releases [...]
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 [...]
It is a shame that most people only know Big Business as “those other two guys in the Melvins.” 2009’s Mind The Drift Bizarre is a collection of batterfanged riffs, bizarre pop hooks and some of the most innovative drumming in recent years. Half a year after the album’s release, the band felt it was a [...]
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 [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minute of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Ben Harper & The Relentless 7 Rerun from February 2. Ben Harper and his band the Relentless 7 played “Lay There & Hate Me” from latest album White Lies For [...]
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 [...]
It’s been more than two years since the last studio album from Southern rockers Drive-By Truckers. Fans have had a few snacks to munch on (Live From Austin, TX and Fine Print: A Collection Of Oddities And Rarities) and live shows to tide them over (including last June’s Bonnaroo performance), but the March 16 release [...]
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 [...]
