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Five Questions With Glenn Donaldson (Reds, Pinks And Purples)

Five Questions With Glenn Donaldson (Reds, Pinks And Purples)

With each release, Glenn Donaldson continues to deepen the contrasting hues of his bruised indie pop. Over the past half-dozen
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Rodney Crowell's "If I Could Speak To Leonard"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Rodney Crowell’s “If I Could Speak To Leonard”

There’s something fitting about Rodney Crowell including a song about Leonard Cohen on a “lost” album. Both artists forged storied
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MAGNET Exclusive: Matt Koenig Goes Track By Track On The Undercover Dream Lovers' "Atomic House"

MAGNET Exclusive: Matt Koenig Goes Track By Track On The Undercover Dream Lovers’ “Atomic House”

Matt Koenig has always operated just outside the usual lanes. Raised in Pittsburgh and now living in Los Angeles, he’s
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A Conversation With Nick Leet (High On Stress)

A Conversation With Nick Leet (High On Stress)

Grizzled Minneapolis vets—they’ll love that description—High On Stress have been at it since 2003. With the new Still Here (Rum
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MAGNET Exclusive: Sons Of Town Hall Go Track By Track On "Of Ghosts And Gods"

MAGNET Exclusive: Sons Of Town Hall Go Track By Track On “Of Ghosts And Gods”

For Santa Fe, N.M.’s David Berkeley and Londoner Ben Parker, life had become a bit of a slog. So they
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Essential New Music: Nicolas Leirtrø's Action Now!'s "Entrance"

Essential New Music: Nicolas Leirtrø’s Action Now!’s “Entrance”

Nicolas Leirtrø’s debut LP has been a while coming, and its precise nature could not have been predicted. The Trondheim, Norway-based
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Normal History Vol. 894: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 894: 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: Premiere Of Jody Porter's "Eleanor's Orbit"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Jody Porter’s “Eleanor’s Orbit”

With “It’s about a prostitute … Don’t tell anyone” as a subject line, it’s hard to believe Jody Porter’s email
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MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP Premiere Of Matthew Stevens' Self-Titled Fourth Album

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP Premiere Of Matthew Stevens’ Self-Titled Fourth Album

Releasing a self-titled LP in the thick of one’s career can mean different things. Sometimes, it’s a revitalizing reboot. Other
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MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of The Loft's "Badges"

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of The Loft’s “Badges”

Badges (Tapete) is the Loft’s second album since reuniting for at least the second time in 2023. Remarkably, it’s also
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Datura4's "Dirty Laundry"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Datura4’s “Dirty Laundry”

When Datura4’s Dom Mariani wrote “Dirty Laundry,” a friend was going through a tough time. And it was about to
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Five Questions With Charlotte Cornfield

Five Questions With Charlotte Cornfield

Charlotte Cornfield’s Hurts Like Hell (Merge) sprouted in the wake of the sort of life event that reframes one’s sense
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MAGNET Exclusive: Thin Lear Goes Track By Track On "Many Disappeared"

MAGNET Exclusive: Thin Lear Goes Track By Track On “Many Disappeared”

Raised on Long Island, N.Y., Matt Longo grew up writing short stories—and that strong narrative instinct drives his hauntingly theatrical
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Five Questions With Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, METZ)

Five Questions With Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, METZ)

Toronto trio METZ shut things down (“on hiatus”) in 2024 after five LPs spread out over 12 years. When a
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Chestnut Grove's "Xpress Urself" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Chestnut Grove’s “Xpress Urself” Video

Chestnut Grove’s latest single is the product of a solitary sticky riff. Guitarist John Tyler was fooling around on a
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Five Questions With Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens)

Five Questions With Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens)

More than two decades removed from her last solo album, Paula Kelley has reemerged with the wonderfully luminescent Blinking As
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Essential New Music: The Arrivals' "Payload"

Essential New Music: The Arrivals’ “Payload”

Chicago’s the Arrivals—well, singer/guitarist Isaac Thotz now lives in L.A., while fellow singer/guitarist Little Dave Merriman, bassist Paddy Costello and
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Live Review: Lydia Lunch’s Murderous Again, Genre Is Death, Philadelphia, PA, April 30, 2026

Live Review: Lydia Lunch’s Murderous Again, Genre Is Death, Philadelphia, PA, April 30, 2026

Nearly 50 years after she co-created the no-wave movement in sound and word with her band Teenage Jesus And The
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Normal History Vol. 893: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 893: 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
/ DAVID LESTER ART, FREE MP3s
Five Questions With Divorce

Five Questions With Divorce

It took Divorce exactly two years to go from South By Southwest buzz band to its first headlining tour of
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MAGNET Exclusive: Big Harp Goes Track By Track On "Runs To Blue"

MAGNET Exclusive: Big Harp Goes Track By Track On “Runs To Blue”

Big Harp has always run parallel to real life for Stefanie Drootin and Chris Senseney. Across two decades together on
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Five Questions With Voxtrot

Five Questions With Voxtrot

Formed in 23 years ago in Austin, Voxtrot got off to fast start, employing the early-aughts blogosphere to garner global
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