Austin-based married couple All In The Golden Afternoon named its upcoming second release, Magic Lighthouse On The Infinite Sea, after its recording studio: the top of a lighthouse in Johnson Bayou, La. Album track “Gulf Coast Highway” features hushed vocals drowning in guitar-laden noise rock that’s (almost) as heavy as the waves crashing below. The [...]
When Margo Timmins strolled up to the microphone in her low-cut black cocktail dress, wrapped in a scarlet shawl, with a rusty shock of hair draped over one eye a la Veronica Lake, even if you’d never seen Cowboy Junkies before, there was no mistaking her star power at the Villa Montalvo’s Garden Theatre in [...]
Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite [...]
When Margo Timmins strolled up to the microphone in her low-cut black cocktail dress, wrapped in a scarlet shawl, with a rusty shock of hair draped over one eye a la Veronica Lake, even if you’d never seen Cowboy Junkies before, there was no mistaking her star power at the Villa Montalvo’s Garden Theatre in the [...]
Thanks to Rasputina frontwoman Melora Creager for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out Sister Kinderhook and live album The Pregnant Concert. Here’s a live video for “Hunter’s Kiss” recorded at the 2009 Edwardian Ball.
For almost two decades, Rasputina has carved out one of the most interesting niches in contemporary music. Melora Creager founded the cello-based ensemble in Brooklyn in 1992, and although the band has gone through numerous lineup changes, it continues to produce its distinctive, heavy-yet-haunting sound. Despite near-constant performing, Creager, fellow cellist Daniel DeJesus and percussionist [...]
Aptly lifted from Knoxville, the Southern city that plays host to the Big Ears Festival each year, “Antonia” is a brief snapshot of a one-off live performance that brought together experimental heavyweights Christian Fennesz, David Daniell and Tony Buck in 2009. Fennesz is perhaps the most recognizable name of the three, a burgeoning icon in [...]
This fall, Deerhunter (pictured) is touring North America in support of upcoming fourth album Halcyon Digest, which is out September 28 via 4AD … Jeff Castelaz, co-founder of The Pablove Foundation and Dangerbird Records, will cycle 1,425 miles across the country this fall in order to raise money and awareness for fighting childhood cancer. Along [...]
For almost two decades, Rasputina has carved out one of the most interesting niches in contemporary music. Melora Creager founded the cello-based ensemble in Brooklyn in 1992, and although the band has gone through numerous lineup changes, it continues to produce its distinctive, heavy-yet-haunting sound. Despite near-constant performing, Creager, fellow cellist Daniel DeJesus and percussionist [...]
Not only is “Escher & Carrot Cake” the first video from Hogz In Dandyland‘s Across A Miracle debut, it’s the first video the Virginia one-man band has ever done. Hogz is the moniker that multi-instrumentalist Brad Hogge goes by, and he has created an intriguing mix of dreamy ’80s acoustic pop and psychedelic ’60s folk [...]
