Chris Lawhorn, the resident DJ at Marie Claire and Real Age, reviews 300-400 singles every month, trying to find the best new music for a workout. Every week, he’ll be posting an indie-centric playlist for MAGNET readers. To vote on upcoming tracks, hear this month’s contenders and find more resources for matching songs to the [...]
On September 28, Meridene is issuing Something Like Blood (Amble Down), the follow-up to 2008 debut You’re Not Pretty, You’re Worse. The Eau Claire, Wisc., quartet recorded its sophomore LP at Bon Iver’s home studio with Peter Wolf Crier’s Brian Moen producing and mixing and Pedro The Lion’s T.W. Walsh mastering. The album is available [...]
Pete Yorn has been surprisingly prolific of late. Consider that it was three years between his sophomore outing, 2003′s Day I Forgot, and 2006′s bracingly eclectic Nightcrawler, the latter largely restoring the potential of his brazenly accomplished out-of-nowhere debut, 2001’s Musicforthemorningafter. Another three years between releases, and Montville, N.J.’s favorite boho chick magnet suddenly had [...]
Thanks to the members of Junip for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the band’s debut album, Fields. Here’s a video for “Always.”
Fans of Swedish indie rock, rejoice: After four years of inactivity, the eclectic popsters in Junip have reunited to record their first full-length album. The trio—vocalist/guitarist José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya—formed more than a decade ago in its hometown of Gothenburg and released a well-regarded EP in 2005. Soon after, the [...]
While it might not be crackly, dusty and hillbilly enough for hardcore traditionalists like Joe Bussard, Ironto, Va.’s Black Twig Pickers are creating some of the best old-timey music around. When they’re not gigging overseas—the trio of Isak Howell, Nathan Bowles and Mike Gangloff are just off a U.K. tour—they have a monthly gig picking [...]
Fat Possum Records will release Andrew Bird’s Useless Creatures on October 25. The instrumental album was previously only available as a bonus disc with the deluxe edition of 2009’s Noble Beast … The Sacred Triangle: Bowie, Iggy & Lou 1971-1973 is a film that examines the era in which David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy [...]
On September 28, Meridene is issuing Something Like Blood (Amble Down), the follow-up to 2008 debut You’re Not Pretty, You’re Worse. The Eau Claire, Wisc., quartet recorded its sophomore LP at Bon Iver’s home studio with Peter Wolf Crier’s Brian Moen producing and mixing and Pedro The Lion’s T.W. Walsh mastering. The album is available [...]
Fans of Swedish indie rock, rejoice: After four years of inactivity, the eclectic popsters in Junip have reunited to record their first full-length album. The trio—vocalist/guitarist José González, keyboardist Tobias Winterkorn and drummer Elias Araya—formed more than a decade ago in its hometown of Gothenburg and released a well-regarded EP in 2005. Soon after, the [...]
It’s fairly safe to assume that much of the witchy, krautrock-y elements of Queens Of The Stone Age—particularly evident circa 2005′s Lullabies To Paralyze—is attributable to the influence of producer and musician Chris Goss, whose own band Masters Of Reality recently issued sixth album Pine/Cross Dover. The video for album track “Always” is a study [...]
