Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Donovan Frankenreiter Surfer/singer/songwriter Donovan Frankenreiter is plugging new album Glow. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Underworld Underworld is promoting Barking in one of its first live-TV performances. Last Call With [...]
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
MAGNET hometown faves the Asteroid #4 are releasing their sixth album, Hail To The Clear Figurines (The Committee To Keep Music Evil), on February 8. It’s the Philly band’s first LP since 2008’s These Flowers Of Ours…, and the quartet is kicking off a West Coast tour with the Lovetones tomorrow in San Diego. Download Hail [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Atlantic/Pacific, Dave Beck, Cashes Rivers, Juliette Commagere, Deluka, the Octopus Project, Paleo, Parallels, Kermit Ruffins, the Sainte Catherines, Small Black, Sorry No Ferrari, Sun Airway, the War On Drugs, Warpaint and Wolf & Cub. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
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 [...]
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
“This is the first time I’ve been hot on this whole tour,” said a gleeful Greg Dulli near the end of a rousing set on Saturday night at Baltimore’s Ottobar. If you’ve seen Dulli live with any of his past or current outfits (Afghan Whigs, Twilight Singers, Gutter Twins), this might be a surprising thing [...]
“The Spirit Was Gone” is the second video from Swanlights (Secretly Canadian), the fourth album from Antony And The Johnsons. The LP is available both in a standard format as well as a special edition that includes an 144-page hardcover book featuring paintings, collages, photos and text by Antony. The band, accompanied by the Orchestra [...]
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): Kings Of Leon Kings Of Leon are supporting fifth studio album Come Around Sundown. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Norah Jones Norah Jones is promoting latest album The Fall as [...]
Kim Richey spent the initial portion of her 15-year career chafing at various stylistic restraints, some self-imposed, others foisted upon her by others. Through the second half of the ’90s, the itinerant daughter of a Dayton, Ohio, record-store owner sampled and discarded various guises: new-country misfit (1995′s Nashville-friendly self-titled debut), Lucinda Williams in waiting (1997’s [...]
