When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week Madeleine Peyroux takes on Elliott Smith’s “Between The Bars.” MAGNET’s Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! Elliott Smith’s “Between The Bars” is both a quiet testament to the ability of love to save us from ourselves and a crushing [...]
Amor de Días—the duo of Alasdair Maclean (Clientele) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas)—just released debut album Street Of The Love Of Days via Merge. (Those of you who speak Spanish know that the band’s moniker translates to “love of days,” hence the album title.) Maclean and Núñez-Fernández worked on the 15-track LP for more than three [...]
After doing some Canadian festival dates in July and August, Broken Social Scene is hitting the road in the U.S. in September for Bumbershoot, Austin City Limits and two weeks opening for TV On The Radio. BSS is still supporting last year’s Forgiveness Rock Record (Arts & Crafts) and just collaborated with director Claire Edmondson [...]
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): Drive-By Truckers DBTs are promoting new album Go-Go Boots. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Jackie Evancho The 11-year-old America’s Got Talent sensation is plugging debut LP Dream With Me. [...]
Amor de Días—the duo of Alasdair Maclean (Clientele) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas)—just released debut album Street Of The Love Of Days via Merge. (Those of you who speak Spanish know that the band’s moniker translates to “love of days,” hence the album title.) Maclean and Núñez-Fernández worked on the 15-track LP for more than three [...]
The Fruit Tree Foundation is a Scottish supergroup led by Rod Jones (Idlewild) and Emma Pollock (Delgados) and featuring James Graham (Twilight Sad), Scott Hutchison (Frightened Rabbit), Jill O’Sullivan (Sparrow And The Workshop), Karine Polwart, Jenny Reeve, Alasdair Roberts and James Yorkston. The nine musicians got together to write and record for a few days [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Atari Teenage Riot, Barn Owl, Bobby, Bon Iver, Cassettes Won’t Listen, Centro-matic, Digitalism, Liam Finn, Follow That Bird, JEFF The Brotherhood, Making Friendz, Minerva Lions, 1, 2, 3, Paleo, Pontiak, Rubblebucket, Ty Segall, Viva Voce, Holcombe Waller, When Saints Go Machine, Dr. Michael White, [...]
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 [...]
Amor de Días—the duo of Alasdair Maclean (Clientele) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas)—just released debut album Street Of The Love Of Days via Merge. (Those of you who speak Spanish know that the band’s moniker translates to “love of days,” hence the album title.) Maclean and Núñez-Fernández worked on the 15-track LP for more than three [...]
Dancer Equired, Times New Viking‘s fifth album, is out now via Merge. The Columbus, Ohio, trio is currently in the middle of a tour in support of the 14-track LP. Download Dancer Equired tracks “Ever Falling In Love” and “No Room To Live” here, watch the Jo McCaughey-directed short film Hello…We Are Times New Viking [...]
