Category: SAY IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY

55 years ago today, Soft Machine released Fourth. Wordless choruses. Read Alec Ounsworth (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) in MAGNET

20 years ago today, Rhett Miller released The Believer. Ain’t that strange. Watch our MAGNET television episode with him: MAGNET

Happy birthday John Fahey. American primitive. Read more in MAGNET about this guitar legend: The Ballad Of John And Rose:

40 years ago today, Swans released Greed. Time is money. Read our MAGNET Classics on the making of Swans’ Soundtracks

Happy birthday Academy Award winner Markéta Irglová (Swell Season). For old times’ sake. Read our feature on Irglová, Glen Hansard

15 years ago today, DeVotchKa released 100 Lovers. Here’s where the strings really come in.

30 years ago today, the Pogues released final album Pogue Mahone. Loved you till the end. Read Q&A with Spider

35 years ago today, Neil Young released Dead Man. We’re with Nobody. Read our live review of Young and Crazy

30 years ago today, the Spinanes released Strand. There’s nothing quite so funny as a hostile second coming. Read our

35 years ago today, Archers Of Loaf released The Speed Of Cattle. You don’t deserve it anyway. Read our Lost

20 years ago today, Sondre Lerche And The Down Quartet released Duper Sessions. So arresting, effortlessly flabbergasting. Watch our MAGNET

30 years ago today, the Band released High On The Hog. Wait, the Band was releasing records 30 years ago?