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): Bettye LaVette Soul singer Bettye LaVette is promoting latest album Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Minus The Bear Minus The Bear will perform “My [...]
This past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos and an eventual split with the label and the creation of Paradacute Records. But even after all the dust settled, the music is still stuck [...]
Los Angeles band Night Horse teamed up with producer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Pearl Jam, Isis) for its upcoming LP, Perdition Hymns, which is due out August 3 via Tee Pee Records. Night Horse plays stoner rock at its best on album track “Rollin’ On,” which has a slow tempo, the crudest bass line and dirtier [...]
Balmorhea recently returned from a month-long trip through mainland Europe and the U.K., a tour that provided the group with some of its most memorable experiences to date. Fortunately for us, band member Michael Muller was kind enough to jot down his impressions and share a few photos of the journey with MAGNET. Read our [...]
This past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos and an eventual split with the label and the creation of Paradacute Records. But even after all the dust settled, the music is still stuck [...]
The latest from the NYC-based Pains Of Being Pure At Heart is this video for the a-side of their new single, “Say No To Love/Lost Saint.” Directed by cute and quirky Mix Tape Club (TV On The Radio, Passion Pit), the video follows keyboardist Peggy Wang on an afternoon adventure. It perfectly captures the band’s [...]
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): Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews is plugging latest album Backatown. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Robert Randolph Pedal-steel guitarist Robert Randolph and [...]
This past winter was an eventful time for OK Go, between the release of third album Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky, disputes with EMI over its YouTube videos and an eventual split with the label and the creation of Paradacute Records. But even after all the dust settled, the music is still stuck [...]
Canby, the side-project of Scott Yoshimura from the Envy Corps, is set to release its first album, Rat, through Aqui Estamos Records on July 20. (It is also the Des Moines, Iowa, label’s debut release.) Yoshimura writes, sings and plays guitar, drums and most of the other instruments on the album, which makes it difficult [...]
Earthlings, we’re long past due for a Funkadelic revival. So to mark the beginning of what’s shaping up to be a long, hot summer, MAGNET wants to give the P-Funk mob two Over/Under passes—beginning here with Funkadelic, with the better-known Parliament soon to follow. Despite a late-period surge in popularity, in the mass mind Funkadelic [...]
