Scottish singer/songwriter Aidan John Moffat is the ultimate collaborator, having been a member of various groups over the past two decades, including MAGNET fave Arab Strap (1996-2006). For “If You Keep Me In Your Heart,” the first single off Everything’s Getting Older (Chemikal Underground), Moffat teams up with Bill Wells in yet another demonstration of collaborative [...]
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): Zac Brown Band Atlanta’s Zac Brown Band is supporting new album You Get What You Give. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Michael Franti The poet, musician and human-rights [...]
KORT is Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner and solo singer/songwriter Cortney Tidwell, and with covers album Invariable Heartache (City Slang), the duo has recorded a sort of love letter to its hometown of Nashville and the city’s musical past. Eleven of the LP’s dozen tracks were originally recorded in the ’60s and ’70s for the Music City-based [...]
West Yorkshire’s Louis Jones (a.k.a. one-man band Spectrals) has been building up a fan base in North America from a solid string of seven-inches and some relentless touring, including a stint with Girls. In typical woozy and starry-eyed malaise, Spectrals brings us “Chip A Tooth (Spoil A Smile)” off the recent Extended Play EP (Moshi [...]
KORT is Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner and solo singer/songwriter Cortney Tidwell, and with covers album Invariable Heartache (City Slang), the duo has recorded a sort of love letter to its hometown of Nashville and the city’s musical past. Eleven of the LP’s dozen tracks were originally recorded in the ’60s and ’70s for the Music City-based [...]
KORT is Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner and solo singer/songwriter Cortney Tidwell, and with covers album Invariable Heartache (City Slang), the duo has recorded a sort of love letter to its hometown of Nashville and the city’s musical past. Eleven of the LP’s dozen tracks were originally recorded in the ’60s and ’70s for the Music City-based Chart [...]
Thanks to Gary Louris and Mark Olson of the Jayhawks for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the enhanced reissues of 1992’s Hollywood Town Hall and 1995’s Tomorrow The Green Grass. Here’s an EPK for the reissues.
Gary Louris and Mark Olson left Jayhawks fans in a lurch when they parted ways rather abruptly in 1995. Turns out Olson had tired of all the obligations and trappings that came with the Minneapolis-spawned group’s hard-won success. So he escaped to the Mojave Desert to ply a rootsier, salt-of-the-earth trade with the help of [...]
Hailing from MAGNET’s home turf, Dangerous Ponies will release their self-titled debut album March 22 via Punk Rock Payroll. The Philly-based Ponies are an unwieldy seven-piece (if you count the two members who serve as backup dancers and tambourine players at live shows) that plays remarkably tight indie rock with a handful of pop glitter [...]
The new album from Battles, titled Gloss Drop, will be released June 7 via the Warp label, and it features guest appearances by Gary Numan, Kazu Makino (Blonde Redhead) and others … On April 5, Concord Music Group is spotlighting Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Albert King in its ongoing Definitive series. Each release is a [...]
