Growing up, Dios frontman Joel Jerome‘s biggest musical influence was always the Beatles. Until, in 1994, he heard Beck’s “Pay No Mind” on L.A.’s KXLU. Says Jerome, “Beck was a huge building block for me as far as songwriting. I loved how laidback and anything goes that music is.” He loved it so much, in [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from American Babies, Anti-Social Music, the Black Watch, Bombino, Breaking Laces, Conversion Party, d’Eon And Grimes, Dengue Fever, Eternal Summers, Former Thieves, the Head And The Heart, the High Llamas, I’m From Barcelona, Jeniferever, Joel Jerome, Kode9 & The Spaceape, Lanu, O’Death, the People’s Temple, [...]
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 [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
Okkervil River just released the first single off its upcoming album, I Am Very Far (Jagjaguar), which is out May 10. The video for “Wake And Be Fine” features the entire band in a film adaptation of one of those vintage concert posters from bands like the Doors or Led Zeppelin circa 1969, flashing lyrics in [...]
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): Funeral Party Rerun from March 31. Funeral Party performed “Finale” off debut album The Golden Age Of Knowhere. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Cake Rerun from March 1. The former [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
Deserter’s Songs was one of MAGNET’s top albums of 1998, and it remains one we return to often. On May 16, Co-Op Music is reissuing Mercury Rev‘s masterpiece with a 13-track bonus CD that includes demos, b-sides, rarities, outtakes, remixes and the like. The extras are the real selling point for us longtime fans, but [...]
Kristian Hoffman and Lance Loud met in high school back in the early ’70s in Santa Barbara, Calif. After starring in PBS cinéma-vérité documentary An American Family, they formed the Mumps, moved to New York and shared Max’s and CBGB stages with all the legends of the punk/new-wave explosion of 1976: Television, the Ramones, Talking [...]
Hey, remember 15 In Philly? MAGNET’s 15th-anniversary survey of our hometown music scene apparently left a lot to be desired in the variety department. It made our friend Rocco DiCicco ask, “Youse guys listen to anything but india [sic] rock?” (He didn’t actually ask that, but it’s always a good time stereotyping Philadelphia’s Italian-American community.) [...]
