Category: BEST OF 2015

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

Has it really been nearly six years since Have One On Me? But it just stopped playing! (Have one on

That the Libertines—returning to the spotlight after imploding more than a decade ago—managed to record a new album, let alone

After a decade and a half of holding it down as indie’s resident maximalist (try finding a review of Illinois

Deafheaven is by no means the first metal band to combine the delicate and the brutal, but by god, the

Let’s be real: You are dead inside. You have been since the first Bush administration. You are a callous, unfeeling