Almost six months after the release of its sophomore effort, Bon Iver is reissuing chart topper and critics’ darling Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar) as a digital-only deluxe edition. What’s so deluxe about this album the second time around, you ask? Custom-made visual accompaniments to each and every song, that’s what. Not quite music videos and not quite your iTunes visualizer, these [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. The great Fountains Of Wayne just issued their fifth album in a career that dates back 15 years. Sky Full Of Holes (Yep Roc) was recorded by the band—vocalist/guitarist Chris [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio [...]
MAGNET fave Luna has digitally reissued 2002′s Romantica, 2005′s Rendezvous and 2002 mini-LP Close Cover Before Striking with bonus songs, hard-to-find b-sides and covers, including Led Zeppelin’s “Dancing Days” and Kraftwerk’s “Neon Lights.” Download Close Cover Before Striking track ”Teenage Lightning” below. “Teenage Lightning” (download): [Audio clip: view full post to listen]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio [...]
MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he’s been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 100 titles—from the ’20s through the ’80s—that you may have missed. A new selection, all currently [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. This week, singer/songwriter Richard Buckner releases Our Blood (Merge), his first new music since 2006’s Meadow. The nine-track LP was recorded by Buckner at his upstate New York home studio [...]
From hopeful kids in their basements to famous stars making viral videos, music and YouTube are becoming a more and more common pairing. YACHT‘s video for “I Walked Alone,” from 2011 release Shangri-La, takes this pairing to a whole ‘nother level. The video is directed by Mitchell Davis, a YouTube sensation with more than 112 [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first [...]
As 2011 comes to an end, we are taking a look back at some of our favorite posts of the year by our guest editors. The Ladybug Transistor formed in Brooklyn in 1995, and frontman Gary Olson has been the band’s sole constant member. Clutching Stems (Merge) is the group’s seventh album and the first [...]
