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For Mia Doi Todd, leaving Los Angeles for Maui provided the sort of immersive calm that eluded her in the

MAGNET’s own Hebrew school dropout (blame the Monkees) finally gives his Torah speech—with accompaniment from guitarist Gary Lucas There’s something

The Human Hearts’ latest video sure put frontman Franklin Bruno on the spot. He finally had to learn how to

“‘Battleground’ is about how we as a society let people and companies with lots of money, power and influence get

There’s a scene at the end of Spike Jonze’s 2020 documentary Beastie Boys Story where Adam “Ad-Rock” Horovitz revisits the group’s final

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

Years before bedroom recording became a feasible way to make an album, Matt Devine was trying to wring the most

There’s a certain clarity that comes at the start of anything—before experience has a chance to sully the experience. “Us

There’s a certain sweet irony to Eli Paperboy Reed writing a song that sounds like something he might’ve written for

Dida Pelled has made an ongoing practice of ignoring the familiar. Through her Lost Women Of Song project, the Brooklyn-based

Listening to Velocity Girl’s earliest recordings is like witnessing a band sort itself out on the fly. Though it would

In medieval times, mapmakers had to deal with the unknown. The phrase “Hic sunt leones” (“Here be lions”), often accompanied

When Pieta Brown invited Amos Lee to join her on “Drinkin’ Side,” loneliness became a shared experience. “Amos and I

Solitude is a central character in the story of Max Subar’s solo debut. With winter in full-on deep freeze mode

Nashville self-proclaimed power duo (wish I’d thought of that first) the Minor Toughs—Ryan Ervin (vocals, guitars, etc.) and Andy Snyder

Fruition’s Something More (Bloodshot) is the sound of a veteran band loosening its collective grip on some old habits. The

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

Though Sondre Lerche has spent much of his 25-year career writing about romance, the love songs on Acrobats (PLZ/Virgin) arrive

Jim James has always had a habit of following ideas wherever they lead—even long-ditched ideas. As the frontman and primary

New moons don’t cast much light, and this recording begins in near nothingness. Spare, reverberant guitar notes gradually materialize, slowly

Wendy Bevan inhabits some uneasy existential territory on “Sleepwalkers,” a haunting new track from her forthcoming album, Alone With The

The first line of Josh Evert’s “The Sound Of Machines” is literally about being woken up by construction equipment. “Milwaukeeans