Category: ESSENTIAL NEW MUSIC

Essential New Music: Mary Halvorson’s “Amaryllis & Belladonna”

What new skill did you pick up during the 2020 lockdown? Teaching math and affect management to your kids? Defeating

In The Swarm is the second album by the trio of guitarist Brandon Seabrook, drummer Gerald Cleaver and hyphenated, mononymic

MAGNET readers probably know guitarist and visual artist David Lester from his weekly contribution to our virtual pages, which pairs

Part of the deal for rock ‘n’ roll fans is to be interested in, and often obsessed with, band minutiae.

Given a cursory look, the Trypes might’ve seemed like a just another hobby band. First formed in 1982, they were

There’s no mistaking jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler’s influence. The breadth and power of his tone on the tenor are unparalleled,

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania

In 2005, with Guided By Voices freshly defunct, a group of Chicago musicians began playing shows as the Textbook Committee,