Category: BEST OF 2015

Take it from us, these are the five finest movies of 2015. The Big Short and Spotlight, both dealing with

MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year 1 Fatoumata Diawara & Roberto Fonseca At Home (Jazz

MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Power Monster White Single Female (Signora Ward) 2

MAGNET’s Matt Ryan picks the best hard-rock releases of the year 1 We Hunt Buffalo Living Ghosts (Fuzzorama) 2 Wake

MAGNET’s Bill Meyer picks the best jazz/improv releases of the year 1 Joshua Abrams Magnetoception (Eremite) 2 Mike Reed’s People,

MAGNET’s Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year 1 Mandolin Orange Such Jubilee (Yep Roc) 2 Joan

MAGNET’s Corey duBrowa picks the best hip-hop releases of the year 1 Kendrick Lamar To Pimp A Butterfly (Top Dawg/Aftermath/Interscope)

MAGNET’s Tim Stegall picks the best punk releases of the year 1 The Sonics This Is The Sonics (Revox)2 The

MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland picks the best singer/songwriter releases of the year 1 Waxahatchee Ivy Tripp (Merge) 2 Bobby Long Ode

MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year 1 Kylesa Exhausting Fire (Season Of Mist) 2 False

MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi picks the best reissues of the year 1 Various Artists Ork Records: New York, New York (Numero

25. Chastity Belt | Time To Go Home (Hardly Art) Did you ever have That Hilarious Friend (you know the

You could argue that Star Wars, the ninth album from now-more-or-less-venerable Wilco, is a softball choice for MAGNET’s album of

Alabama Shakes built a huge following with their classic rock debut, so revisiting that Hendrix-meets-Janis vibe on the follow-up would

On one hand, J. Tillman’s second album as Father John Misty is junk food for the soul—as irresistibly self-destructive as

“Put me on a pedestal, and I’ll only disappoint you,” warns Australian folk-rocker Courtney Barnett on a punk-chorded “Pedestrian At

The second LP from this Sydney, Australia quartet—its members are identified only as Shogun (vocals), Law (guitar), Joe (bass) and