Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Guided By Voices’ “Please Be Honest”

No, friends, MAGNET did not issue this 23rd Guided By Voices album ourselves, your “GBV Inc.” jokes notwithstanding. (Please do see

And then there was one. Original Big Star drummer Jody Stephens is now the last surviving member of the ironically

When the discussion turns to escaping your father’s long shadow, James McCartney beats anyone’s sad tale of overcoming daddy issues.

It’s been six years since Look Mexico’s last full-length, and as such Uniola has a sense of freshness and freedom

Calling a record “important” is somewhat akin to being told to “eat your spinach.” Blecch. What about music that just

When you couple the chemistry and longtime friendship between guitarists/vocalists Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson (the pair’s roots go back

Absolute Loser is the first Fruit Bats record since 2011, which wouldn’t be such a big deal— Eric Johnson’s 2014

Though her career went supernova via the weird, wild, gloriously iconoclastic molecular restructuring of pop/rock on 1983’s landmark She’s So

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania