Monthly Archives: July 2010

From The Desk Of The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider: The Beach Boys’ “Smile”

Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]

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Film At 11: The Kingsbury Manx

Longtime MAGNET fave the Kingsbury Manx just did a video for “Over The Oeuvre,” which is off last year’s Ascenseur Ouvert! (Odessa). It was directed by Richard Jaimeyfield, who we remember from back in the day for doing the clip for Archers Of Loaf’s classic “Web In Front.” According to the band, the Kingsbury Manx was [...]

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TiVo Party Tonight: Interpol, Stone Temple Pilots, Of Montreal, 311

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): Interpol New York’s Interpol will perform in support of its forthcoming self-titled album, which drops September 7. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Stone Temple Pilots STP [...]

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From The Desk Of The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider: Recording

Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]

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MP3 At 3PM: Like Pioneers

Chicago’s Like Pioneers is a group of seven friends who were all members of different bands before teaming up late last year to make music together. The result of just a few weekends in December is the band’s debut full-length, Piecemeal, which will see the light of day August 17 via Abandoned Love Records. Premiering [...]

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!!! Makes MAGNET A Mix Tape

!!! is a band that’s hard to Google and hard to pronounce (for the record, it’s commonly said “chk chk chk”), but that’s somehow perfectly suitable for a band that invades your ears with intense, hypnotizing grooves until your forget where you are. This time around, the California six-piece looked to the club scene in [...]

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From The Desk Of The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider: Op Art And 3D

Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]

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Film At 11: Peaches

It’s just another day for Peaches in her “Show Stopper” music video—and the worst day of a local masseuse’s life. Peaches takes off her shiny black ensemble to lay there naked on the massage board, head through the facehole, the teardrop of her face smooshed, the camera panning in for a close-up as she says, [...]

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TiVo Party Tonight: The Flaming Lips, Dierks Bentley, Wild Light

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): The Flaming Lips The Flaming Lips are supporting newest album Embryonic. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Dierks Bentley Country artist Dierks Bentley is promoting new album Up [...]

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From The Desk Of The Apples In Stereo’s Robert Schneider: Old-School Video Games

Talking to Apples in stereo frontman Robert Schneider is something like sitting around the kitchen table with a few friends and a six-pack while knocking out the screenplay for a new episode of Seinfeld. With Schneider at the controls of this magic-bus ride, he pulls the topics he likes out of thin air like some [...]

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