MAGNET fave Pete Yorn is playing The Palms Las Vegas on Friday, April 8. You can buy tickets here, but we have two free tickets for one lucky MAGNET reader. All you need to do is email us the answer to this question: What was the title of Pete Yorn’s most recent studio album? (Send [...]
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week the Civil Wars take on Smashing Pumpkins’ “Disarm.” MAGNET’s Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! By 1993, Smashing Pumpkins were quickly becoming a household name, thanks to the success of Gish on college radio and a relentless touring schedule [...]
Aside from having the coolest name of any punk-leaning Chicago-area band since Big Black, Smoking Popes have been blessed with core fan base that refused to quit on the outfit. When leader Josh Caterer pulled the plug on the Popes in 1998, it came little more than a year after releasing what might have been [...]
During the Röyksopp show at the palatial Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, Murphy was my unexpected plus-one. After parking on a shady side street and hiking eons to the venue, everything that could have gone wrong, did. Thank god I was at a Röyksopp show and not a Morbid Angel death-metal show: Instead of knifing someone [...]
Australia’s Skybombers returned today with Black Carousel (429), the follow-up to 2008 debut Take Me To Town. The 11-track Black Carousel was recorded in L.A. with Rick Parker (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Von Bondies) by the now five-piece Melbourne-based band, whose three founding members met in high school. MAGNET is proud to premiere the video [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Dierks Bentley Country artist Dierks Bentley is playing “Am I The Only One” from his upcoming, not-yet-titled album. Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Britney Spears BS is plugging brand new [...]
Aside from having the coolest name of any punk-leaning Chicago-area band since Big Black, Smoking Popes have been blessed with core fan base that refused to quit on the outfit. When leader Josh Caterer pulled the plug on the Popes in 1998, it came little more than a year after releasing what might have been [...]
Japanese drone/metal trio Boris recently released “Hope,” the first single off Attention Please, one of two new albums the band is releasing May 24 via the Sargent House label. (Heavy Rocks is the other.) Since its debut in 1996, Boris has been known for pushing genre boundaries, and the threesome doesn’t disappoint with its two new LPs. [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from All Tiny Creatures, ASKA, Bear Hands, Craft Spells, Erland & The Carnival, Hunx And His Punx, Illvibe Collective, the Mountain Goats, Obits, Royal Bangs and Those Darlins. 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 [...]
