Category: FEATURES

The Devil Makes Three: Redemption Songs
The Devil Makes Three still likes that old-time rock ’n’ roll “People are always asking us where our music comes

The Head And The Heart: Live Through This
The Head And The Heart explores the personal on its major-label debut When Jonathan Russell caught up with MAGNET, he

Lisa Hannigan: Hearts And Bones
Famous friends helped Lisa Hannigan find inspiration for her latest LP Celtic thrush Lisa Hannigan had feathered her nest so

Cass McCombs: The Politics Of Dancing
Cass McCombs addresses issues of gender, race and power on his new LP “No one likes a poetic musician; we’re

El Perro del Mar: World Party
El Perro del Mar’s latest explores a planet without borders A visit to a musical instrument museum with her toddler

Teenage Fanclub: Caledonia Dreaming
Teenage Fanclub returns with songs of love, hope and redemption Six years in the flimsy, fickle world of rock and

The Low Anthem: Lonely Eyeland
The Low Anthem stripped its sound and membership down to the bare essentials to actualize Eyeland On the subject of

National Park Radio: Sounds Of Rural America
National Park Radio is flying its freak flag “Our songs are big, folky free-for-alls,” says Stefan Szabo, National Park Radio’s

Cotton Mather: Spiritual Fabric
For its first album in 15 years, Cotton Mather takes on the I Ching Cotton Mather’s Robert Harrison gets brownie

“He’s No Angel”: A Short Story By MAGNET’s Mitch Myers
Adam Coil was only 55 when he passed away. He was alone in his apartment eating Chinese food and watching The

Rhyton: Right On
Rhyton pours out the cosmic boogie Nothing is fixed in Dave Shuford’s musical universe, but balance must be maintained. The

Wild Beasts: The Pleasures And Sorrows Of Work
How Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe got his groove back with Boy King Some artists might conceive an entire album

The Twin Atlas: Keep Coming Back
The Twin Atlas returns after seven-year hiatus There’s a strummy tradition of pastoral rock from New Jersey that goes back

Biffy Clyro: Pause And Claws
Exhausted from the road, Biffy Clyro went dark for a year to conceive the high-wattage audio circus of Ellipsis Two