To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Candle, Da Cruz, Efren, Handsome Furs, Eilen Jewell, SBTRKT, See-I, Shabazz Palaces and White Wives. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
Black Dub, the eclectic quartet helmed by guitarist and Grammy-winning producer Daniel Lanois, released its self-titled debut via the Jive label last year, and we have three signed copies of the album on both CD and vinyl to give away to MAGNET readers. All you need to do is be one of the first six [...]
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Four years ago, Seaweed reunited to play the annual No Idea Records festival. While that was cool enough for the band’s many fans, we all wanted more. There was talk of Seaweed making a new album, but nothing ever materialized. Until now. On July 4, No Idea is issuing the “Service Deck”/”The Weight” seven-inch, the [...]
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 [...]
If By Yes is the latest project from the multi-talented Petra Haden. The band’s debut, Salt On Sea Glass (Chimera), took almost a decade to make and features Haden collaborating with Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu and Yuko Araki (Cornelius), as well as guests such as David Byrne and Nels Cline (Wilco). [...]
Eleanor Friedberger is following brother Matthew’s lead by making a solo album. The Fiery Furnaces singer wrote Last Summer (out via Merge on July 12) last summer and recorded it in the fall. The 10-track LP features a number of songs about places around her New York City home, including “Scenes From Bensonhurst,” “Roosevelt Island” [...]
It’s the 32nd annual Festival International de Jazz de Montreal. MAGNET’s Mitch Myers translates the action. Hypothetically, there’s something for everyone at the Montreal Jazz Festival. I personally wasn’t interested in mainstream gigs like Diana Krall (in her first ever solo performance) or Chick Corea’s latest edition of Return To Forever, so I began my [...]
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): Dawes The L.A. band has wrapped up its tour with Bright Eyes and is supporting sophomore album Nothing Is Wrong. The Jay Leno Show (NBC): OneRepublic Rerun from June [...]
If By Yes is the latest project from the multi-talented Petra Haden. The band’s debut, Salt On Sea Glass (Chimera), took almost a decade to make and features Haden collaborating with Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu and Yuko Araki (Cornelius), as well as guests such as David Byrne and Nels Cline (Wilco). [...]
Efren started as the solo project of Scott Low, but tomorrow, the Athens, Ga., outfit is releasing its first full-band album. Rise On Up And Melt (Slo Pro), the follow-up to last year’s Always Been A Bleeder EP, is informed by the dissolution of Low’s marriage. Though he and his bandmates all have jazz backgrounds, [...]
