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Essential New Music: The Hard Quartet's "The Hard Quartet"

Essential New Music: The Hard Quartet’s “The Hard Quartet”

The Hard Quartet would like you to know that this is not a project, it’s a band. But what kind
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Olivia Valentine's "And Now Just Be" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Olivia Valentine’s “And Now Just Be” Video

“Tired, beaten and frustrated with the world, a man decides to go live underwater among the friendly pond creatures that
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Five Questions With Lisa Morales

Five Questions With Lisa Morales

Lisa Morales was on her own for Sonora (Luna)—more so than ever before. As Morales assembled the songs for her
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Salim Nourallah's "Telegraph Avenue"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Salim Nourallah’s “Telegraph Avenue”

This past January, Salim Nourallah began the year on a productive note with “Telegraph Avenue.” Then he didn’t compose anything
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MAGNET Classics Podcast: The Real Story Behind Toad The Wet Sprocket's "Dulcinea"

MAGNET Classics Podcast: The Real Story Behind Toad The Wet Sprocket’s “Dulcinea”

Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the key albums of the MAGNET era, with exclusive, in-depth interviews
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Andrew Gabbard’s “Magic Taxi” Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Andrew Gabbard’s “Magic Taxi” Video

“Sometimes I can have so much going on in my head, and the only way for me to get it
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Live Review: Billie Eilish, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 5, 2024

Live Review: Billie Eilish, Philadelphia, PA, Oct. 5, 2024

The first and last time I witnessed Billie Eilish live and onstage was the occasion of 2019’s When We All
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Normal History Vol. 811: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 811: 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 Starcrawler's "Learn To Say Goodbye" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Starcrawler’s “Learn To Say Goodbye” Video

Arrow de Wilde certainly has the pedigree for the occupation she chose quite early on. The daughter of photographer/filmmaker Autumn
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Justin Webb & The Noise's "A Rose To Chew On" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Justin Webb & The Noise’s “A Rose To Chew On” Video

Justin Webb & The Noise may be feeding off the same influences—the Clash, Oasis, the Strokes—that shaped their previous Nashville
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Essential New Music: Stefan Christensen's "In Time"

Essential New Music: Stefan Christensen’s “In Time”

It’s time, quite literally, for Stefan Christensen to come clean. Previous recordings by the denizen of New Haven, Conn., have
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Live Review: Oceans Calling Festival 2024

Live Review: Oceans Calling Festival 2024

In only its second year, Oceans Calling Festival in Ocean City, Md., sold out within weeks of tickets going on
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Five Questions With Kate Pierson (B-52s)

Five Questions With Kate Pierson (B-52s)

Though we fell deeply in love with Kate Pierson in 1976 as a co-founder of the B-52s and their uneasily
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A Conversation With John Davis (Superdrag)

A Conversation With John Davis (Superdrag)

Although JINX (Lost In Ohio) was never officially announced as such (at least not with any specifics like a release
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Normal History Vol. 810: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 810: 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
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of The Davenports' "When Everything's Over"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of The Davenports’ “When Everything’s Over”

Like so many songs before and since, the Davenports’ “When Everything’s Over” began with a conversation. “The idea came from
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Essential New Music: BASIC's This Is BASIC

Essential New Music: BASIC’s This Is BASIC

BASIC began when Philadelphians Chris Forsyth and Nick Millevoi spent some of their COVID downtime talking about records. Among their
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An AmericanaFest 2024 Six-Pack: Robert Earl Keen, Wyatt Ellis, Jana Mila, Swamp Dogg, Paisley Fields and Crys Matthews

An AmericanaFest 2024 Six-Pack: Robert Earl Keen, Wyatt Ellis, Jana Mila, Swamp Dogg, Paisley Fields and Crys Matthews

This year’s AmericanaFest was the hottest in recent memory, with daytime temps reaching the 90s and cloud cover hard to
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of George Alley's "King In Town" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of George Alley’s “King In Town” Video

Producer Ian Romer walked into George Alley’s Philadelphia apartment one day and found him sitting at his baby grand piano.
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Glosser's "Angel Dust" Video

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Glosser’s “Angel Dust” Video

If a 21st-century night in the city had an official Gen Z playlist, Glosser’s “Angel Dust” would easily make the
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Five Questions With Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman)

Five Questions With Joan Wasser (Joan As Police Woman)

A classically trained violinist turned genre-spanning enigma, Joan Wasser spent the ’90s immersed in the indie-rock world, performing with Mind
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Live Review: Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 21, 2024

Live Review: Jeff Lynne’s ELO, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 21, 2024

If you’re trying to remember what happened between Jeff Lynne and his earliest partners in the classic-ized Electric Light Orchestra—itself
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MAGNET Exclusive: Office Dog Goes Track By Track On "Doggerland"

MAGNET Exclusive: Office Dog Goes Track By Track On “Doggerland”

Office Dog’s dynamic, guitar-driven indie rock takes a subtle and textured turn on Doggerland (New West/Flying Nun). So much more
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Live Review: John Cooper Clarke, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 20, 2024

Live Review: John Cooper Clarke, Philadelphia, PA, Sept. 20, 2024

Reviewing a poet, even one as slippery, speedy and beloved as Dr. John Cooper Clarke, is no easy feat. Like
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