Monthly Archives: December 2010

Film At 11: Parts & Labor

On March 8, MAGNET faves Parts & Labor will release Constant Future (Jagjaguwar). The 12-song LP is the Brooklyn trio’s fifth, and it was co-produced by the band and Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Sleater-Kinney) at his Tarbox Road Studios in Casadega, N.Y., though P&L tracked the record themselves in a former boxing ring in Milwaukee. [...]

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TiVo Party Tonight: Maroon 5

Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): Maroon 5 Rerun from December 10. Maroon 5 promoted new album Hands All Over with a performance of “Give A Little More.”

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Best Of 2010, Guest Editors: Versus On “The Road”

As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. In the ’90s, most indie rockers were white males who cultivated a cool, detached image. New York-based Versus stood out from its contemporaries for many reasons. Its lineup included two [...]

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MP3 At 3PM: The Handsome Family

The Handsome Family‘s latest album isn’t new at all. The self-released Scattered: A Further Collection Of Lost Demos, Orphaned Songs And Odd Covers is exactly what it sounds like: odds ‘n’ sods from various compilations, covers of songs by the likes of Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and the Beatles and other tracks that never made [...]

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Best Of 2010, Guest Editors: Thrice On Paul Shirley’s “Can I Keep My Jersey?: 11 Teams, 5 Countries, And 4 Years In My Life As A Basketball Vagabond”

As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. A dozen years into its career, Thrice is still evolving. Following 2005′s experimental/atmospheric Vheissu and four-part concept album The Alchemy Index Vols. I & II (2007) and Vols. III & [...]

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Best Of 2010, Guest Editors: Versus On The Civil War (Or The War Between The States)

As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. In the ’90s, most indie rockers were white males who cultivated a cool, detached image. New York-based Versus stood out from its contemporaries for many reasons. Its lineup included two [...]

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Film At 11: Bear Hands

“Crime Pays” is the latest video from Brooklyn’s Bear Hands, and the song is from Burning Bush Supper Club, out last month via Cantora Records. Says guitarist Ted Feldman of the clip, “Andrei Bowden Schwartz directed the video from a concept that my filmmaker friend Sam Shainberg and I had birthed one day over Vietnamese sandwiches. [...]

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TiVo Party Tonight: John Mellencamp, Crystal Castles, Los Campesinos!, The 88

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): John Mellencamp Rerun from December 6. John Mellencamp performed “Save Some Time To Dream” from his new album, No Better Than This. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Crystal Castles Rerun from December 9. The [...]

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Best Of 2010, Guest Editors: Cowboy Junkies On Cowboy Junkies, The Next 25 Years

As 2010 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. 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 [...]

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MP3 At 3PM: Richard Ashcroft

If you think the latest Richard Ashcroft single sounds familiar, that’s probably because you’ve already heard it. “Are You Ready?” is featured in Volkswagen’s recent Jetta commercial and had been in ads for the FIFA World Cup Finals and Fox’s broadcasts of the MLB playoffs. It will also serve as the closing-credits music for the upcoming Matt Damon/Emily Blunt [...]

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