Sweet Apple is more than just a question of Cobra Verde’s John Petkovic and Tim Parnin having some teenage kicks with Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis and Witch’s Dave Sweetapple. It’s the answer to the heartache, grief and depression that led Petkovic to drive from Cleveland to Vermont, where he rediscovered the healing powers of rock [...]
Sweet Apple is more than just a question of Cobra Verde’s John Petkovic and Tim Parnin having some teenage kicks with Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis and Witch’s Dave Sweetapple. It’s the answer to the heartache, grief and depression that led Petkovic to drive from Cleveland to Vermont, where he rediscovered the healing powers of rock [...]
Thanks to BoDeans frontman Kurt Neumann for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the duo’s new Mr. Sad Clown. Here’s a recent episode of Sound Pass that features a live performance of album opener “Stay” as well as an interview with Neumann and Sam Llanas.
While the BoDeans have built a loyal fan base over the course of the 24 years since the release of their T Bone Burnett-produced debut, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the duo—Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas—is best known as the band whose “Closer To Free” became the theme song to ’90s TV show Party [...]
On “Closet Astrologer,” New Zealand’s Ruby Suns pick up where My Bloody Valentine left off, modernizing Kevin Shields and Co.’s beautiful wall of sound by layering towering pads and off-beat percussive flourishes against reverb-soaked vocals. Trading massive guitars for glowing synthesizers, the Suns work immediately to assemble an air, a feeling—more than a song—recalling the [...]
Former MAGNET guest editor Adam Green’s debut art exhibition, Teen Tech, will open on Thursday at the Morrison Hotel Gallery Bowery in New York, coinciding with his two gigs at the Bowery Ballroom on his tour supporting Minor Love. The exhibit features 12 sculptures, 18 paintings, 19 drawings and 20 collages, all of which will [...]
While the BoDeans have built a loyal fan base over the course of the 24 years since the release of their T Bone Burnett-produced debut, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the duo—Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas—is best known as the band whose “Closer To Free” became the theme song to ’90s TV show Party [...]
Iowa quartet the Poison Control Center is currently touring the U.S. in support of its second full-length, Sad Sour Future, which will be released May 18 via Afternoon Records. The double album was written while each member of the band was living in a different city and covers themes of growing older and world-weariness, but [...]
While the BoDeans have built a loyal fan base over the course of the 24 years since the release of their T Bone Burnett-produced debut, Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams, the duo—Kurt Neumann and Sam Llanas—is best known as the band whose “Closer To Free” became the theme song to ’90s TV show Party [...]
Sam Amidon‘s cover of R. Kelly’s “Relief” becomes more rewarding not so much with each rotation but with each passing refrain. For the patient listener, it communicates a great depth of character, as the initial interplay of banjo, violin, piano and acoustic guitar slowly invites cello, xylophone, woodwinds and Amidon’s relaxed, porch-perfect vocals into a [...]
