For post-punk scholars, Tommy Stinson will be forever fused to his infamous 12-year stint with Minneapolis garage-rock overachievers the Replacements. These days, the 45-year-old journeyman and doting dad is playing bass for Guns N’ Roses and Soul Asylum and has released his second solo album (and first in seven years), the well-crafted, bluesy and robust One [...]
Chris Connelly is a Scottish-born, Chicago-based singer/songwriter with a background in numerous musical genres, including industrial (Ministry, Revolting Cocks) and experimental (Pigface). His latest solo album is Artificial Madness, and it’s out now via Relapse Records. The just-released, Shayna Connelly-directed video for “Wait For Amateur” is a colorful pop-art homage. We are proud to premiere [...]
Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Hot Chelle Rae Hot Chelle Rae is performing “I Like It Like That.” Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Nickelback The rockers are celebrating today’s release of Here And Now. [...]
Many innovative electronica-based artists have come out of the Nordic region, and Niki & The Dove is a musical project hailing from Sweden featuring Malin Dahlström and Gustaf Karlöf. The duo breaks down just about everything you thought was pop music with distinct, anthemic vocals alongside excitable and smooth electronic beats. Vancouver’s Blood Diamonds takes [...]
To celebrate today’s crop of releases, here are new mp3s from Doomtree, Fonda, Today The Moon, Tomorrow The Sun and Wooden Wand And The Briarwood Virgins. 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 and unjustly forgotten [...]
For post-punk scholars, Tommy Stinson will be forever fused to his infamous 12-year stint with Minneapolis garage-rock overachievers the Replacements. These days, the 45-year-old journeyman and doting dad is playing bass for Guns N’ Roses and Soul Asylum and has released his second solo album (and first in seven years), the well-crafted, bluesy and robust One [...]
“Visually stimulating” may be an understated attempt at describing Ohbijou‘s video for “Niagara.” Shot in stunning black and white, the clip sees the band members gracefully fall through the air, play their instruments with water raining down on them and erupt in flames. Ohbijou is an indie-pop band hailing from Canada that has just released its [...]
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): Needtobreathe South Carolina’s Needtobreathe is plugging new album The Reckoning. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Javier Colon Javier Colon is celebrating this week’s release of Come Through For [...]
Much like Glenn Jones, Nathan Salsburg‘s got folk-guitar chops that evoke all that is emotive and wonderful about the cooling temperatures, the changing leaves and that crisp smell in the air. Salsburg has a comforting, deep voice that resonates warmly with his accomplished fingerpicking. Minimal and simplistic, his musical folklore speaks volumes and begs for a [...]
