Month: June 2011

TiVo Party Tonight: Marty Stuart, Pitbull With Ne-Yo, Parachute, David Crosby & Graham Nash, Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion

Post author By MAGNET Staff
Post date June 29, 2011

Ever 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): Marty Stuart
Country icon Marty Stuart is performing “Country Boy Rock & Roll” from new album Ghost Train: The Studio B Sessions.

The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Pitbull With Ne-Yo
Rerun from June 16. Pitbull and Ne-Yo performed “Give Me Everything” from Pitbull’s latest, Planet Pit.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! (ABC): Parachute
Virginia’s Parachute is supporting new LP The Way It Was.

Late Night With Jimmy Fallon (NBC): David Crosby & Graham Nash
Rerun from May 25. The legendary rockers performed classic “Just A Song Before I Go.”

Last Call With Carson Daly (NBC): Sarah Lee Guthrie & Johnny Irion
Rerun from April 6. The husband-and-wife duo, composed of a third-generation Steinbeck and a third-generation Guthrie, promoted latest album Bright Examples with a performance of “Target On Your Heart.”

GUEST EDITOR

Petra Haden Thinks You Feel Right: Edward Hopper

Post author By MAGNET Staff
Post date June 29, 2011

If By Yes is the latest project from the multi-talented Petra Haden. The band’s debut, Salt On Sea Glass (Chimera), took almost a decade to make and features Haden collaborating with Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto) and Hirotaka “Shimmy” Shimizu and Yuko Araki (Cornelius), as well as guests such as David Byrne and Nels Cline (Wilco). Haden is the daughter of jazz legend Charlie Haden and the sibling of musicians Rachel, Tanya (the sisters are triplets) and Josh Haden. Though she has played with a who’s-who of alt-rock and jazz artists over the past 20 years, Haden is perhaps best known for her fantastic 2005 a cappella interpretation of The Who Sell Out. Haden will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Check out the mix tape she made us in 2008, and read our brand new Q&A with her.

Haden: I’ve always loved the paintings of Edward Hopper. I especially love Nighthawks, Morning Sun, New York Restaurant and Hotel Room. I relate to these paintings. The colors he choses and themes are simple, and they say so much. The way he uses light and shadows is his signature sound. I love the energy in New York Restaurant. I feel like I’m there.

Video after the jump.

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MP3 At 3PM: John Wesley Harding

Post author By MAGNET Staff
Post date June 29, 2011

On October 11, John Wesley Harding is issuing The Sound Of His Own Voice (Yep Roc). The Philly-based singer/songwriter recorded the LP in Portland, Ore., with a backing band consisting of R.E.M.’s Peter Buck and Scott McCaughey and the Decemberists’ Chris Funk, Jenny Conlee, Nate Query and John Moen. Also appearing on The Sound Of His Own Voice are Rosanne Cash, Laura Veirs, the Long Winters’ John Roderick, Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin and others. Download album track “Sing Your Own Song” below.

“Sing Your Own Song” (download):
https://magnetmagazine.com/audio/SingYourOwnSong.mp3

TAKE COVER!

Take Cover! YACHT Vs. X

When is a cover song better than the original? Only you can decide. This week YACHT takes on X’s “Nausea.” MAGNET’s Ryan Burleson pulls the pin. Take cover!

There was always something different about Los Angeles-based, late-’70s punk icons X. Not different in the sense that our parents understood punk itself—fear everything they don’t understand kind of thing—but in a way that belied the band’s musical and literary pedigree. Singer Exene Cervenka and bassist John Doe, who would later be married for five years, met in poetry class; original guitarist Billy Zoom had previously backed legendary rockabilly artist Gene Vincent; and drummer D.J. Bonebrake would go on to perform with classical jazz groups. Nonetheless, X’s sound was just as raw and sinister as that of the Germs and Black Flag, which, alongside X, were giving the movement a visibility in L.A. it had never before seen. X was inspired by ideas and a new sound, not empty technical proficiency.

For its part, YACHT extinguishes the guttural haze of X’s “Nausea,” which first appeared on the band’s 1980 debut, Los Angeles, and replaces it with a slick, krautrock structure that somehow captures the brooding aesthetic of the original pretty well. Perhaps only because all the lyrics are clearly audible—the same can’t be said of the X version, nor of most punk songs from the period—the new “Nausea” experience is more vivid, even somewhat disturbing, despite its squeaky clean veneer. The two options, then, are quite distinct, though equally assured of their gall.

The Cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Ox8pFPi-0

The Original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a5C0thv_zo

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GUEST EDITOR

Petra Haden Thinks You Feel Right: The Grove

Post author By MAGNET Staff
Post date June 29, 2011

Haden: The Grove in Los Angeles is like being on the ride “It’s A Small World” at Disneyland. So many stores, so much time. There is a spot where you can sit down outside and people watch while drinking a mocha from Coffee Bean, but the chairs make so much noise. And people move them around too much, even when they are sitting down. Why is that?

Video after the jump.