MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Lawrence Kim's "Madeleine"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Lawrence Kim’s “Madeleine”

The “Madeleine” of Lawrence Kim’s latest single is a composite of several people he knows—with a little of himself thrown
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MAGNET Exclusive: Silversun Pickups Go Track By Track On "Tenterhooks"

MAGNET Exclusive: Silversun Pickups Go Track By Track On “Tenterhooks”

Silversun Pickups’ first album in four years finds the quartet in a bit of a mid-life tizzy. Thankfully, it’s not
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Iguana Death Cult's "I Like It, It's Nice"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Iguana Death Cult’s “I Like It, It’s Nice”

With a name like Iguana Death Cult, you know you’re dealing with band that doesn’t take itself too seriously. After
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Essential New Music: Barry Walker Jr.'s "Paleo Sol"

Essential New Music: Barry Walker Jr.’s “Paleo Sol”

Humankind cannot live by rock alone. Thus Barry Walker Jr., a geologist and teacher with a Nashville past and a
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Shame At Echoplex, Los Angeles

Shame At Echoplex, Los Angeles

Shame at Echoplex, Los Angeles. Photos by Skylar Watkins.
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Normal History Vol. 881: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 881: The Art Of David Lester

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places
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MAGNET Exclusive: The Lowest Pair Goes Track By Track On "Always As Young As We'll Ever Be"

MAGNET Exclusive: The Lowest Pair Goes Track By Track On “Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be”

The Lowest Pair’s eighth album is a study in a different sort of realism—a warm and knowing embrace of that
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Charming Disaster's "New Moon" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Charming Disaster’s “New Moon” Video

The second track from Charming Disaster’s latest LP, The Double, “New Moon” is an existential triple threat. “It’s dreamy incantation,
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MAGNET Exclusive: Lapêche Goes Track By Track On "Autotelic"

MAGNET Exclusive: Lapêche Goes Track By Track On “Autotelic”

Hard-won sobriety has its advantages, especially when it’s practiced as a couple. For Lapêche’s Dave and Krista Holly Diem, clearing
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Five Questions With Tyler Ramsey And Carl Broemel

Five Questions With Tyler Ramsey And Carl Broemel

Tyler Ramsey first connected with Carl Broemel almost 15 years ago, when the two toured together—Broemel as the guitarist for
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Beatrice Deer's "The Bear"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Beatrice Deer’s “The Bear”

For many people in this increasingly xenophobic world, Beatrice Deer might as well be beaming in from another planet. For
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MAGNET Exclusive: T. Gold Goes Track By Track On "Life Is A Wonder And It's Cruel"

MAGNET Exclusive: T. Gold Goes Track By Track On “Life Is A Wonder And It’s Cruel”

Saman Khoujinian and Gabriel Anderson have been collaborating in some form another since their high-school days in South Florida. About
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Essential New Music: Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs' "Persian Carpets"

Essential New Music: Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs’ “Persian Carpets”

Daniel O’Sullivan and Richard Youngs share a fundamental quality: Both have spent decades making any kind of music they want.
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Dwight + Nicole's "Day Or Night"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Dwight + Nicole’s “Day Or Night”

“Day Or Night” arrived in three parts—two for Dwight Ritscher, and one for his wife, Nicole Nelson, a former contestant
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Sudan Archives And Halima At Union Transfer, Philadelphia

Sudan Archives And Halima At Union Transfer, Philadelphia

Sudan Archives and Halima at Union Transfer, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich. Halima
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Normal History Vol. 880: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 880: The Art Of David Lester

Every week, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places
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MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of Ailbhe Reddy's "Kiss Big"

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of Ailbhe Reddy’s “Kiss Big”

Like any breakup album, Ailbhe Reddy’s Kiss Big (Don Giovanni) is messy and uncomfortable. Written at various junctures in New
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