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 [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
Lucas/Lukas is the musical duo of actors Lukas Haas (Witness, Inception) and Isabel Lucas (Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, The Cove), and as far as actors playing music go, these two are pretty damn good. Watch the Carleton Ranney-directed video for “Made For You” below, and check out a clip of Haas and Lucas talking [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
MAGNET’s love of all things Wrens-related goes back to even before they released their debut record in 1994, so when we learned that they were instrumental in getting Southeast Engine signed to Misra Records in 2006, we knew we had to check out these guys. And we weren’t disappointed. After two solid albums for the [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of [...]
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It’s also his 31st studio album in a career that dates back all the way to the mid-’60s. Over the years, Cockburn has become one of his country’s most successful and honored musicians, winning more than his share of awards [...]
Thanks to Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist of Over The Rhine for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the duo’s new LP, The Long Surrender. Here’s a live video for album track “The King Knows How” that was recorded in December at the Taft Theatre in the band’s hometown of [...]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 20 years since Over The Rhine issued its debut album. The Ohio-based husband-and-wife duo of multi-instrumentalists/vocalists Linford Detweiler and Karin Bergquist have marked the anniversary with new album The Long Surrender, which was produced by Joe Henry at his Garfield House home studio and features an assortment of [...]
