Month: April 2010

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TIVO PARTY TONIGHT

TiVo Party Tonight: Hole, The Whigs, Citizen Cope

TIVOhole4678Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers:

The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Hole
So it took Courtney Love 12 years to make Hole’s new album, Nobody’s Daughter. Nobody’s shocked. The band is performing in support of new the LP, which came out today.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): The Whigs
The Whigs are promoting new album In The Dark and newly announced tour dates with the Hold Steady.

Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): Citizen Cope
Citizen Cope is plugging the new The Rainwater LP.

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GUEST EDITOR

Shout Out Louds Fall Hard: Larry David

Not long after the release of their second album, 2007’s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. However, despite the distance, it wasn’t long before Olenius was writing new material and sending it out to his bandmates, who all contributed from their remote locations. As a result, the quintet has returned with a fresh, simple sound on third full-length Work (out now on Merge), which the band is currently supporting on a tour of North America and Europe. Shout Out Louds will be guest-editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with Olenius and our 2007 feature on the band.

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Olenius: Oh, Larry David. You’re so annoying, but I love you. I wanna ride in your Toyota Prius and talk about social events. I want to eat lunch with you and Jeff, play golf with film-studio executives and date women in wheelchairs. Maybe you could call Jerry and we could just go to the movies. Think about it. But I don’t understand why you sleep with so many clothes on.

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FREE MP3s

MP3 At 3PM: Alcoholic Faith Mission

alcoholicfaithmission637Copenhagen, Denmark, quintet Alcoholic Faith Mission’s moniker is an ironic play on the concept of the Apostolic Faith Mission, taken from a neon sign found by two of the band members while they were in Brooklyn. Since then, the group has gone on to record a couple albums and tour the world; it returns today with its third full-length, Let This Be The Last Night We Care (Paper Garden). To celebrate, MAGNET is proud to premiere the album’s magnificently lo-fi single, “My Eyes To See,” which you can download below.

“My Eyes To See” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/MyEyesToSee.mp3

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120 REASONS TO LIVE

120 Reasons To Live: Frank Black

Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten videos from the show’s classic era.

#4: Frank Black “Los Angeles”

The Pixies are dead—long live the Pixies. But when Frank Black, dressed like Mad Max, careens through the desert in a hovercraft, all you can think is “That’s badass.” The video for “Los Angeles”—which also manages to skewer then-dominant neo-hair band grunge acts via a parodic depiction of Soundgarden-alikes—was a huge coup. Not only were fans curious as to what Black’s solo career would produce, there were also rumors that his self-titled 1993 debut would be a covers album. (It turned out to be all originals, aside from a version of the Beach Boys’ “Hang On To Your Ego.”) Whatever your take on the legacy of the Pixies vs. Black’s solo stuff, “Los Angeles,” directed by They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh, is easily the best video Black has ever made.

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GUEST EDITOR

Shout Out Louds Fall Hard: Moules

SOLlogo2Not long after the release of their second album, 2007’s Our Ill Wills, and months of relentless touring, Sweden’s Shout Out Louds decided to take a six-month break, and its five members—frontman Adam Olenius, bassist Ted Malmros, guitarist Carl Von Arbin, drummer Eric Edman and keyboardist Bebban Stenborg—spread out between Melbourne, Los Angeles and Stockholm. However, despite the distance, it wasn’t long before Olenius was writing new material and sending it out to his bandmates, who all contributed from their remote locations. As a result, the quintet has returned with a fresh, simple sound on third full-length Work (out now on Merge), which the band is currently supporting on a tour of North America and Europe. Shout Out Louds will be guest-editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Q&A with Olenius and our 2007 feature on the band.

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Edman: Moules is the cheapest restaurant food you can get at home in Stockholm. And it’s really easy to prepare.

Video after the jump.

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