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There used to be a time within the pop continuum that music was allowed to have a sense of humor.

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

The raga is a platonic ideal for the guitarists who founded the “Takoma school” and those who have followed in

For this special edition of the MAGNET “Instant” Classics series, Hobart Rowland teamed up with How Did I Get Here?

Guided By Voices at the Basement East, Nashville. Photos by Alexzandra Roy.

Olivia Rodrigo and the Breeders at Madison Square Garden, New York City. Photos by Wes Orshoski. The Breeders

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

The first word on the new Vampire Weekend album is “fuck.” You heard it here first. (Unless you read that

Domenic Dunegan was 18 when he first saw Bruce Springsteen live, and he’s certainly not the only newbie to be

AJR at Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia. Photos by Evan Albuck.

Babe I Hear Thunder In Your Heart isn’t so much a first taste of Arsun Sorrenti as it is neatly

Call the High Llamas a group if you’d like. But there’s been little doubt over the past 32 years that

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

The Carnegie Hall Concert inaugurates The Year Of Alice, a series of concerts, exhibits and publications celebrating the legacy of

They say kids are resilient. But the Ballroom Thieves’ Calin Peters isn’t so sure. “They’re adaptable, but it’s not the

Initially, How???’s new single was about movement. “The refrain was actually, ‘We’re movin’, we’re movin’” … instead of, ‘Remove it,

Bar Italia at the Blue Room, Nashville. Photos by Skylar Watkins.

Kim Gordon at Knockdown Center, Queens. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

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

Though the annual SXSW Conference & Festivals is more manageable now than it was at its frenetic peak a decade

“It’s the closest we’ve gotten to just straight-up making a movie,” says King Youngblood’s Cameron Lavi-Jones of the bracingly cinematic

David Gray at City Winery, New York City. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

On March 24 of last year, Rob Mazurek’s Exploding Star Orchestra used Chicago’s Adler Planetarium as a launch pad for

Waterparks, Loveless and Sophie Powers at the Fillmore, Philadelphia. Photos by Evan Albuck. Loveless Sophie Powers