Category: NEWS

In The News: Cat Power, Animal Collective, Aaron Dessner & Justin Vernon, Waxahatchee, Metric, Blood Orange, Richard Thompson, Devotchka And More
It's been six years since Cat Power released Sun—which, according to Wikipedia, we called "easily her fullest-sounding, most animated record

In The News (Reissues, Collections And Vinyl Edition): Tom Petty, Ramones, Grateful Dead, Thelonious Monk, MC5, ELO, L7, U2, Nitzer Ebb, Fallout Boy And More
The still-hard-to-believe-he's-gone Tom Petty is the subject of a career-spanning, 60-track boxed set called An American Treasure (Reprise) featuring previously unreleased

In The News (Reissues And Collections Edition): David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Felt, Phil Collins, Lee Hazlewood, Fastball, Capital Punishment, Joni Mitchell And More
Part four of a career-spanning series of David Bowie boxed sets that already includes Five Years (1969-1973), Who Can I Be

In The News: Paul Weller, Alejandro Escovedo, Thrice, Chills, Mudhoney, Alice In Chains, Magpie Salute, Tokyo Police Club, John Grant, Roy Montgomery And More
Paul Weller's True Meanings (Parlophone/Warner Bros) is his 26th studio album overall. And it's brought to you by the number

In The News (Reissues And Collections Edition): Joe Strummer, The Band, The Fall, Led Zeppelin, Moldy Peaches, Pet Shop Boys, The Doors, Elvis Presley And More
Just because you were the face of the Only Band That Matters doesn't mean you didn't make some essential music

Michael Gira Gears Up For A Swans Reissue, A Solo Tour And An Oral History On His 35-Year Career
Michael Gira's Young God label has just released Swans' seminal Soundtracks For The Blind on vinyl for the first time.

A New Public Image Ltd Boxed Set Is Both From The Heart And Rotten
It's a bitter "pil" to swallow, but Public Image Ltd does indeed turn 40 this year. Happy? Disappointed? After quitting

In The News: Mogwai, Eric Bachmann, Joy Formidable, Marissa Nadler, Murder By Death, Sun Kil Moon, Say Hi, Marc Ribot, Jack Drag, Blues Traveller And More
On August 31, Temporary Residence will release Mogwai’s soundtrack to Kin, a sci-fi/crime drama directed by Jonathan and Josh Baker.

R.I.P. Richard Swift (Shins, Arcs, Black Keys)
R.I.P. Richard Swift (Shins, Arcs, Black Keys). Not only did you do everything, you did everything better than pretty much

In The News: Paul McCartney, The Dig, Dirty Projectors, Villagers, Mirah, Gillian Welch, Circles Around The Sun, Salim Nourallah, Boz Scaggs And More
Roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour—step right this way. Paul McCartney is set to take you away on a

In The News: Death Cab For Cutie, Spiritualized, Jon Spencer, Brant Bjork, Mighty Mighty BossToneS, Houndmouth, James, Blitzen Trapper And More
It seems like just yesterday we had the brilliant Dave Eggers interview Death Cab For Cutie for the cover of

MAGNET Fave The Green Pajamas To Play Last Show
When the Green Pajamas first started playing together, a gallon of gas cost 91 cents, a pack of cigarettes cost

In The News (Reissues And Collections Edition): John Coltrane, U2, Phish, Grateful Dead, Nick Mason, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, J Balvin And More
55 years ago John Coltrane and his classic quartet—bassist Jimmy Garrison, drummer Elvin Jones and pianist McCoy Tyner—recorded a full-on