>>Through The Looking Glass: Neutral Milk Hotel >>Being Stephen Malkmus: Stephen Malkmus >>The Insiders: Thom Yorke >>A Decade Under The Influence: MAGNET'S Top 60 Albums, 1993-2003 >>Night On Earth: Sparklehorse >>Sweetest Decline: Beth Orton >>A Conversation With ... XTC's Andy Partridge >>Where Have All The Good Times Gone?: Mudhoney >>Harmony Of The Spheres: Mercury Rev >>I'm With Stupid: Jon Spencer Blues Explosion >>Things Will Never Be The Same: Spacemen 3 >>Working Class Hero: Guided By Voices
MAGNET #34 (May/June '98)
Jud Cost profiles Jeff Mangum and Co. as they unleash magnum opus In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
MAGNET #49 (Apr/May '01)
Writer Jonathan Valania spends some time in Malkmus' shoes as he begins life after Pavement.
MAGNET #60 (Sep/Oct '03)
The Radiohead frontman contemplates his past, present and future with senior editor Matthew Fritch.
MAGNET #60 (Sep/Oct '03)
Context is everything. MAGNET's list of top 60 albums, assembled for our 10th anniversary issue, aren't up for public debate, nor are they subject to the laws of fairness. This is our music.
MAGNET #52 (Dec/Jan '02)
They don't often get to tell them, but dead men have the best tales. Mark Linkous delivers his strange and beautiful vision of life to Jonathan Valania.
Sparklehorse photos
MAGNET #39 (Apr/May '99)
Mitch Myers finds Orton bearing the torches for both the electronic revolution and the folk tradition, sometimes at the risk of burning too brightly.
Beth Orton photos
MAGNET #39 (Apr/May '99)
A.D. Amorosi rings the Partridge hermitage in Swindon, England, to chat with the XTC leader about betrayal, disappointment, servitude, anxiety and intelligent idiocy.
MAGNET #38 (Jan/Feb '99)
Jonathan Valania hits the road with Seattle's late, great beer barons of grunge, sharing a last laugh with the band as they play to empty seats on a Pearl Jam tour. Guest appearances by Superchunk and Iggy Pop.
Mudhoney photos
MAGNET #38 (Jan/Feb '99)
Jud Cost discusses matters both intergalactic and planetary with Jonathan Donahue and Co. as they prepare to unleash Deserter's Songs, a masterpiece of wide-screen, psychedelic Americana.
Mercury Rev photos
MAGNET #27 (Feb/Mar '97)
Jonathan Valania corners the Blues Explosion backstage. Frivolous, funny Q&A ensues. Guest appearances by J Mascis, Atari Teenage Riot's Carl Crack and Russell Simins' brother.
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion photos
MAGNET #26 (Dec/Jan '97)
Fred Mills examines the career of the British band that set a thousand subsequent groups to droning, tracing its history from inception to demise. Includes an extensive analysis of splinter groups Spiritualized, Spectrum, E.A.R. and Slipstream. An essential, epic article.
Spacemen 3 photos
Spiritualized photos
MAGNET #23 (Apr/May '96)
Eric T. Miller sits down with Robert Pollard to find out where the GBV leader came from, where he's going and where he learned to play basketball so well. Lengthy Q&A is a must-read for fans and a good introduction for the uninitiated. A MAGNET classic.
Guided By Voices photos