Category: BEST OF 2016

MAGNET’s #10 Album Of 2016: Dinosaur Jr’s “Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not”

Consider, if you will, two bands from Massachusetts that formed in the mid-’80s, broke up for more than a decade,

December 17, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

It’s been an annus horribilis of Nasty Women and Bad Hombres, aggressive groping and building a wall and making them

December 16, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

For Mitski Miyawaki, happiness is neither a self-evident truth nor an unalienable right, instead a boorish lout who eats her

December 16, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

Mangy Love is a slippery album, by turns didactic and Dada-esque, sensitive and pissed-off, somber and humorous. Cass McCombs has

December 15, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

Even after a five-year wait between albums, it’s weirdly easy to take Radiohead for granted. Maybe it’s a slight tempering of

December 14, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

Angel Olsen has one of those voices. She can belt her songs out, but her control is excellent. This is

December 14, 2016 / BEST OF 2016

If Happy Mondays were Antipodean rather than Mancunian and plied their wares using turntables and samplers rather than spaced-out guitars,

December 13, 2016 / BEST OF 2016