
MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of SorryNotSorry’s “The Other Side”
SorryNotSorry was never supposed to be a thing. After an eight-year break from music, Samantha Dagnino collided with fellow Venezuelan

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Jayne Kelli’s “Only In The Dream”
Jayne Kelli spent 40 hours editing the video for “Only In The Dream” (a song “born out of a vortex

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Tony Joe White’s “Goodbye L.A.”
Tony Joe White’s “Goodbye L.A.” gets the seal of approval from his son. “It’s so damn good,” says Jody White.

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Jupe Jupe’s “Kill Your Darlings”
For Jupe Jupe’s Bryan Manzo, synthesis isn’t just about electricity—it’s about texture and sound. “What if Marc Bolan played guitar

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Pets’ “Elevator”
They seem like nice guys, so we’ll forgive Pets for the keystroke quandary presented by the title of their debut

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Thin Lear’s “My Old Friend”
As he gets older, Thin Lear’s Matt Longo is finding it harder to keep tabs on the people he cares

Normal History Vol. 864: 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

A Conversation With Colin Blunstone (Zombies)
Odessey And Oracle is one of the ’60s era’s great last gasps, its final track, “Time Of The Season,” a

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-Album Premiere Of Aitis Band’s “IV”
Joan Of Arc frontman Tim Kinsella may get more attention for his forays into the avant-garde, but former JOA members

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Snowmen’s “Primordial Soup”
“Primordial Soup” was a sort of post-punk litmus test for Snowmen. “It’s one of the first songs we wrote together,”

Five Questions With The Happy Fits
For a band that had been on a three-year roll, things couldn’t have gone much worse for the Happy Fits

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Surface Wound’s “No Prize”
“No Prize” began life as a Google search. “We found the trashy drum loop by searching ‘post punk drum loop

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Pôt-Pot’s “The Lights Are On” Video
Pôt-Pot’s latest single was written during a period of profound personal change for Mark Waldron-Hyden. “It left me dissociated or

MAGNET Exclusive: Los Straitjackets Go Track By Track On “Somos Los Straitjackets”
After 30-odd years, you’d think Los Straitjackets would be over their identity crisis. But as it turns out, they’ve known

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Night Teacher’s “Everything I’ve Had”
Personal evolution is a hot topic among a talented and diverse crop of female singer/songwriters these days, and Lilly Bechtel

Essential New Music: Thomas Ankersmit’s “The Dip”
Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Sammy Brue’s “Lord, I’m Ready Now”
The Journals is a tribute album in the most authentic sense. On it, Sammy Brue pays homage to Justin Townes

Iggy Pop At The Anthem, Washington, DC
Iggy Pop at the Anthem, Washington, D.C. Photos by Chris Sikich.

Normal History Vol. 863: 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