Magnet Magazine

“You know how they say Black Flag got in a van, and they brought punk rock to the world? Well,

Shearwater’s The New World (Polyborus) took shape over four years across multiple countries, with sessions in London, Berlin, New York

Sometimes the pre-Craigslist approach is still the best approach. When Oisean Burnett moved from Glasgow to London in 2024, he

Highsigh may be a new name, but band members Ro Lundberg (JOBS), John Dieterich (Deerhoof) and Matt Mehlan (Skeletons) have

Democracy can seem permanent right up until the point when it doesn’t. That not-so-far-fetched realization informs “Palace Of The People,”

“There was a point between records where it actually pained me to work on music, which was an unfamiliar and

In our amazing Five Questions with Kiwi Jr.’s Jeremy Gaudet, we teased Gaudet offering a behind-the-scenes look at the songs

In retrospect, the ’60s girl-group tradition always had more teeth than its juiciest hooks might imply. “The music often functioned

In Body Type’s hands, the mundane has a way of becoming something, well, not so mundane. A shitty old elevator,

Despite bearing a name pertaining to the sense of touch, Haptic’s music has long hovered at the threshold of insubstantiality.

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine, plus brand-new releases from

Much like their better-known neighbors in Guided By Voices, Dayton, Ohio’s Smug Brothers have never made a grand production out

At just 19, Olive Siegel has already cycled through multiple versions of her singer/songwriter self. The Maine-based artist has a

Pug Johnson’s latest single is a cheerfully self-deprecating East Texas waltz that champions diminishing expectations, disappearing standards and that point

Over five LPs in three years, Effie Zilch has treated genre less as a limitation than an assortment of tools,

For members of the Love.Craft Band, the process of making music isn’t something to fuss over. The Athens, Ga., six-piece

For the Clover Valley Boys, rooting around in country music’s past has never been an exercise in preservation or imitation.

Open Form For Society II is the third instalment in German drummer Christian Lillinger’s proposal to reform social discourse. (Live

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places

Nostalgia is comforting up to a point. But when it promotes stagnation, you can be caught between an idealized past

Reassembling after two decades, Teddy DuChamp’s Army has gone right back to trusting its DIY instincts on new single “Throwing