Category: RECORD REVIEWS

The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Jesus Shootin’ Heroin, Etc.
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims

The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: At War With The Critics
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims

The Flaming Lips Almost Killed Me: Gawd Only Knows
Will repeated listening to the Flaming Lips' dark, depressing and intense new album drive you insane? MAGNET's Matthew Fritch aims

Essential New Music: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers’ “Mojo”
Tom Petty has said of Wildflowers, the 1994 solo album he cut with Rick Rubin that is arguably the high

DVD Review: Various Artists “The T.A.M.I. Show”
If you wanted to get straight to the heart of an exploding 1964 pop-music scene, you couldn't do any better

Record Review: Big Star “Keep An Eye On The Sky”
As a career retrospective and unreleased/rarities compilation, you couldn’t do much better than Keep An Eye On The Sky, Rhino

Record Review: Monahans “Dim The Aurora”
"It's Enough To Leave You" is the opening track on Dim The Aurora, and it packs about a quarter-century of
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THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN: The Power Of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities [Rhino]
Although it might be difficult to comprehend now, the Jesus And Mary Chain was a total revelation when it appeared
![l_3fb7f3b8a7a641d5bfa40882dd276cf51 MASCOTT: Art Project [Red Panda]](https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/plugins/pt-content-views-pro/public/assets/images/lazy_image.png)
MASCOTT: Art Project [Red Panda]
Mascott is the art project of Manhattanite Kendall Jane Meade, a seraph-voiced singer and sometime Off-Broadway songwriter. Conversely, Art Project

First Exposure: New Bands Worth Knowing
FREDRIK Na Na Ni [The Kora] The debut by this Malmö, Sweden, six-piece comes on like typical Scandinavian folk pop.
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THE END OF THE WORLD: French Exit [Flameshovel]
End Of The World singer/drummer Stefan Marolachakis sounds so much like the Walkmen’s Hamilton Leithauser that you’d be forgiven for
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ROY HARPER: Flat Baroque And Berserk [Science Friction] / ROY HARPER: Stormcock [Science Friction] / ROY HARPER AND JIMMY PAGE: Jugula [Science Friction]
Ask for Englishman Roy Harper’s references and you’ll get pages of popular and semi-popular names that span decades. Led Zeppelin
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DEERHUNTER: Microcastle [Kranky]
After the breakout success of 2007’s Cryptograms, Deerhunter has expanded its sonic palette without sacrificing the innovation or excitement that’s
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VIVIAN GIRLS: Vivian Girls [In The Red] / CRYSTAL STILTS: Alight Of Night [Slumberland]
The Velvet Underground’s first album ranks among the most plagiarized of all time: Its strident melodies, dark subject matter and