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MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year 1) The Saints (I’m) Stranded (In The Red)2) X

MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa picks the best hip-hop releases of the year 1) Kendrick Lamar GNX (pgLang/Interscope) 2) Joey Valence And Brae

MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year 1) Olcay Bayir Tu Gulî (ARC)2) Manu Chao Viva

MAGNET’s Matt Ryan picks the best hard-rock releases of the year 1) Fu Manchu The Return Of Tomorrow (At The

MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year 1) أحمد [Ahmed] Giant Beauty (Fönstret)2) أحمد [Ahmed] Wood

MAGNET’s Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year 1) Jake Blount & Mali Obomsawin Symbiont (Smithsonian Folkways)2)

If you ever need a sink snaked in your Hoboken brownstone, Gene “D. Plumber” Turonis is your guy. An offbeat

For Aaron Louis, music would seem to be just another bullet point in a mind-bogglingly vast resume. Currently the audio-visual

Not everything that Simon Joyner sings is autobiographical, but it’s always true. The Omaha-based singer and guitarist has spent the

The Jesus Lizard at Brooklyn Steel, Brooklyn, N.Y. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

Kathleen Edwards and Matt Sucich at Arden Gild Hall, Wilmington, Del. Photos by Chris Sikich.

“That was from 25 years ago,” announces Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor, by way of reminder, after the applause from

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

Luther Russell’s 12-string Rickenbacker gets a serious workout on “Right Way.” The latest single from the esteemed rock journeyman is

If you’re not a morning person, we can’t think of a better way to kick off your Christmas Day than

Given today’s dicey political climate, feel free to read whatever you want into Guided By Voices’ latest single and lines

A juicy ’60s garage-pop throwback with pronounced post-punk DNA, “New Year’s Dissolution” is the latest result of S. LaBate’s fruitful

Max Wareham’s latest single did some sitting before it finally found its legs with the help of a bluegrass legend.

A fixture on the Los Angeles indie scene for more than three decades, David Steinhart spent the past 10 years

“Banks Of The Brazos” is the continuation of a sobering, real-life tale Roger Street Friedman first documented on 2022’s “The

MAGNET’s Mitch Myers celebrates the celebration of the MC5 in the year 2024 How do we salute the MC5? Let

Rosa Bordallo’s “Crasseux” is a study in contrast. “The opening lyrics describe a scene I imagined from history, when Ferdinand

For the North American start of The Big Show Tour at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, They Might Be Giants’ cofounding Johns