To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Afrobeta, Blood Orange, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Mimi Goese & Ben Neill, Hella, Male Bonding, the Nocturnes, Tinariwen, Vaz, Butch Walker & The Black Widows, the Wandas, Devon Williams and YAWN. Also, vote for your favorite of today’s new releases.
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 [...]
Since the mid-’90s, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have both had successful music careers, she as an acclaimed singer/songwriter and he as an electrifying guitar player with his group and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The two met on tour in 1999, married a couple of years later and had two children, but their [...]
Jolie Holland’s husky voice and bluesy guitar combine to create spellbinding tunes, and “All Those Girls” is no exception. Its video depicts a melancholy atmosphere with an empty apartment, a carousel of guitars and days passing by in still-motion. Through awkward-yet-intriguing camera shots, this clip tells the story of a female coming to grips with [...]
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): St. Vincent Multi-instrumentalist and former Polyphonic Spree-er Annie Clark (a.k.a. St. Vincent) is performing “Cruel” from forthcoming album Strange Mercy. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Cake [...]
Since the mid-’90s, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have both had successful music careers, she as an acclaimed singer/songwriter and he as an electrifying guitar player with his group and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The two met on tour in 1999, married a couple of years later and had two children, but their [...]
Earlier this month, Atlanta indie-folk group Book Club released its debut album, Ghost, digitally and on limited-edition vinyl via the 2Step label. The quintet attempts a fresh take on folk, with sweetly sung harmonies adorned with the sounds of cello, double-bass, melodica, glockenspiel and more. Ghost boasts songs that are bittersweet and simply narrative, and [...]
Since the mid-’90s, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have both had successful music careers, she as an acclaimed singer/songwriter and he as an electrifying guitar player with his group and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The two met on tour in 1999, married a couple of years later and had two children, but their [...]
Since the mid-’90s, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks have both had successful music careers, she as an acclaimed singer/songwriter and he as an electrifying guitar player with his group and the Allman Brothers Band, among others. The two met on tour in 1999, married a couple of years later and had two children, but their [...]
Thanks to of Montreal for guest editing our website all week. Be sure to check out the band’s latest release, thecontrollersphere. Here’s a video for the EP’s “L’age D’or.”
