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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

Getaway Dogs: Soul Kitchen
Getaway Dogs make Brazilian psychedelia ... from California Getaway Dogs inhabit their own starry-eyed universe, drifting along to the tropical

D Generation: Walk On The Wild Side
NYC punk icon D Generation returns with first album in 17 years It was a painfully clear message that fourth-generation New

Ruby Friedman Orchestra: Quiet Songs Of Devastation
With Gem, Ruby Friedman Orchestra keeps it real Ruby Friedman is a rocker, but the songs on Gem, her debut

Katie Kim: The Story Of Her Life
Katie Kim opens the Flood gates with her sophomore album Irish autuer Katie Sullivan—who, as Katie Kim, home-records ethereal, loop-based

Ziemba: The Art Of Songwriting
Ziemba’s music is doing the modern dance Hope Is Never, the debut album from René Kladzyk (who performs as Ziemba),

Leland Sundries: Loss And Found
Leland Sundries makes music from, for and about outcasts When Nick Loss-Eaton looked at the songs he’d written for what would

Thalia Zedek Band: Down To The Essence
Eve shows off the Thalia Zedek Band’s impressive musical range “I’ve been looking for ways to make our sound sparser,”

Lisa Prank: Smells Like Teen Spirit
Lisa Prank makes pure pop for punk people Lisa Prank plays electric guitar with an inspiring command of power and