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): Cee-Lo Green Cee-Lo is plugging latest album Lady Killer. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Gavin DeGraw The singer/songwriter will most likely be performing new single “Not Over [...]
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
Bob Pollard’s Boston Spaceships return August 2 with double album Let It Beard (Guided By Voices, Inc.). The 26-track LP, the band’s fifth in its three-year existence, features guest appearances by the likes of Colin Newman (Wire), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr), Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate), Mick Collins (Dirtbombs, Gories), Dave Rick (Phantom Tollbooth) and Mitch [...]
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week the Wooden Birds take on Hall & Oates’ “Maneater.” MAGNET’s Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover! “A she-cat tamed/By the purr of a Jaguar.” The whole of straight man-kind is both ruined and elated by the type of woman [...]
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
MAGNET fave Joseph Arthur just issued The Graduation Ceremony (Lonely Astronaut), and it’s an absolute stunner. The album is his first solo LP since 2006′s Nuclear Daydream and the follow-up to last year’s Fistful Of Mercy (a collaboration with Ben Harper and Dhani Harrison). Watch the Arthur-directed video for The Graduation Ceremony track “Love Never [...]
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): Preservation Hall Jazz Band & Del McCoury Band The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band are promoting joint album American Legacies. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno [...]
Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs Of The Queen Of Country Music is the fifth full-length from New York City singer/songwriter Laura Cantrell, and as you probably deduced from the album’s title, the LP pays tribute to country music’s first female star. Cantrell recorded the 10-track record in Nashville, the city where both she and Wells were [...]
Wooden Shjips, spelled with a “j” to make it look like they were Swedish (a la tennis star Björn Borg) instead of from San Francisco, have a major influence you’d never figure out, even if you had a thousand guesses. Although people always peg them as disciples of the Velvet Underground or Suicide, which they [...]
