Magnet Magazine

If you’re going to play space-oriented rock, Kohoutek might tell you, don’t mess around. The Philadelphia-based ensemble, whose membership orbits

Greazy Alice’s As Time Goes By (Loose) is an unassuming, under-the radar gem that recently fell into our lap through

Spoon and Ratboys at SummerStage, New York City, Photos by We Orshoski.

Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell at the Highmark Mann Center For The Performing Arts, Philadelphia. Photos by Chris Sikich.

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

Scott McCaughey at Chris & Deb’s House, Riverton, N.J. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Throughout his 20-year career, Robbie Furze has been most comfortable in a place where noise, melody and atmosphere intersect, from

Some albums take a while to sink in. (Growers.) Some never do. (Not sure what to call those.) Then there

Adam Rubenstein has spent the better part of four decades following his gut, from the melodic post-hardcore of Split Lip

For Maris Maeve O’Tierney, the music of Park Hills Circle convenes at the intersection of a vast and varied landscape.

Low Cut Connie has always equated a great rock show with humanity’s best face, blurring the line between music and

For Hamburg, Germany’s Ivy Flindt, Los Angeles proved to be both a destination and a state of mind. Produced by

There are plenty of songs about activism, but not as many capture the emotional resilience that inspires it. That’s pretty

“Friends In Dark Places” is the first Black Drumset track delivered entirely in the first person. That may not seem

Since launching Terror/Cactus in 2017, Martín Selasco has built an undulating body of work that treats Latin American musical traditions

Jon Spencer chewed up the better part of four decades with an impressive parade of impactful bands, from Pussy Galore

Growth rarely happens without some collateral damage. Tanner Dane’s “Hardest Lessons Learned” confronts that uncomfortable truth as it traces the

With its images of yachts, socialites in sun hats and musicians performing at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, the 1959

Sarah Aili’s All Of Me (JACKACAB) is one of those increasingly rare occasions in jazz when best intentions, properly administered

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

With Tolerance (Fightmaster Industries/Many Hats), E.R. Fightmaster delivers the most personal music of their career, peeling away some pretty thick

Whether his preference is pastoral folk, cosmic Americana or shimmering indie pop, Eric D. Johnson has always been less interested