Car Seat Headrest: Jukebox Hero

Car Seat Headrest: Jukebox Hero

Under the covers with Car Seat Headrest's Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest is a fiercely fine-tuned live beast of a
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OBNEAC HITS - Berry - Fragments

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Berry’s “Fragments” Video

2018 marks the 16th year of Berry's existence, and to mark the occasion, Joyful Noise has issued the quartet's third
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Essential New Music: Car Seat Headrest's "Twin Fantasy (Face To Face)"

Essential New Music: Car Seat Headrest’s “Twin Fantasy (Face To Face)”

“My boy, we don’t see each other much.” And on this shouty, Animal Collective-ish note, Will Toledo—the brains and brawn
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What I've Learned: Eric T. Miller, MAGNET Editor-In-Chief (1993-Present), 46, Philadelphia

What I’ve Learned: Eric T. Miller, MAGNET Editor-In-Chief (1993-Present), 46, Philadelphia

MAGNET's editor-in-chief soberly reflects on what he’s learned over the past 25 years, 150 issues and enough alcohol to kill
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Essential New Music: Felt's "A Decade In Music" And Go-Kart Mozart's "Mozart’s Mini-Mart"

Essential New Music: Felt’s “A Decade In Music” And Go-Kart Mozart’s “Mozart’s Mini-Mart”

Felt was one of Britain’s best indie bands of the 1980s that never quite got its due in the States.
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In The News: Jim James, Father John Misty, Lykke Li, English Beat, Prefuse 73, Essex Green, Black Sabbath, Jeremy Enigk, Mick Ronson, Eric Clapton, Gene Clark And More

In The News: Jim James, Father John Misty, Lykke Li, English Beat, Prefuse 73, Essex Green, Black Sabbath, Jeremy Enigk, Mick Ronson, Eric Clapton, Gene Clark And More

My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James will release third solo album Uniform Distortion on June 29 via ATO. The 11-track
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Essential New Music: Holger Czukay's "Cinema"

Essential New Music: Holger Czukay’s “Cinema”

Released to coincide with what would’ve been his 80th birthday, Cinema is a gorgeous, shady and gawky overview of what
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Normal History Vol. 474: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 474: The Art Of David Lester

Every Saturday, we’ll be posting a new illustration by David Lester. The Mecca Normal guitarist is visually documenting people, places
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Cheer-Accident's "Done"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Cheer-Accident’s “Done”

If you want to impress your friends by saying you got in on the ground floor with Cheer-Accident via the
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Totally Mild: Sense Of A Woman

Totally Mild: Sense Of A Woman

Melbourne’s Totally Mild comes of age with Her “Her is an album about being a woman—knowing women intimately, relating to
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Throwback Thursday: Lucy Dacus' "No Burden" (MAGNET's #1 Album Of 2016)

Throwback Thursday: Lucy Dacus’ “No Burden” (MAGNET’s #1 Album Of 2016)

Cover photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov With the release of her excellent new sophomore album Historian (read our review
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of US, Today's "Spellcaster (Dr. Spirit)"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of US, Today’s “Spellcaster (Dr. Spirit)”

Did you ever wonder what would happen if Us Weekly and USA Today merged? Well, the result would decidedly not
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Essential New Music: Lucy Dacus' "Historian"

Essential New Music: Lucy Dacus’ “Historian”

“I’m afraid of pain, both yours and mine,” sings Lucy Dacus plaintively on the cold open to “Yours And Mine,”
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Wayback Wednesday: Wild Beasts

Wayback Wednesday: Wild Beasts

Now MAGNET faves Wild Beasts have officially broken up, we look back on the feature we did when the quartet's
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Wild Beasts: Going Out In Style

Wild Beasts: Going Out In Style

Britain’s Wild Beasts end their 15-year career with a live-in-the-studio LP Leaving on a high note was of paramount importance
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Franz Ferdinand: All My Friends

Franz Ferdinand: All My Friends

Franz Ferdinand is playing at James Murphy’s house. One of the best Franz Ferdinand performances is on an LCD Soundsystem
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Record Review: Franz Ferdinand's "Always Ascending"

Record Review: Franz Ferdinand’s “Always Ascending”

Franz Ferdinand seems to have a thing for laziness. In addition to the Glasgow band’s generally louche persona, there’s a
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Superchunk: Mac Takes The Wheel

Superchunk: Mac Takes The Wheel

How Superchunk streamlined its songwriting process Our Noise, John Cook’s excellent oral history of Merge Records written with Mac McCaughan
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Superchunk: Pretty Hate Machine

Superchunk: Pretty Hate Machine

Indie-rock institution Superchunk tempers a grim worldview with uplifting punk melodies Given the subject matter of Superchunk’s 11th record, it’s
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Essential New Music: Kississippi's "Sunset Blush"

Essential New Music: Kississippi’s “Sunset Blush”

It was difficult not to get too excited when Philly’s Kississippi released “Cut Yr Teeth” back in December. It felt
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Record Review: The Decemberists' "I’ll Be Your Girl"

Record Review: The Decemberists’ “I’ll Be Your Girl”

Anyone who’s been cussed out by “Ben Franklin’s Song” knows Colin Meloy still has some poison left in his quill.
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In The News: Johnny Marr, Matthew Sweet, Joseph Arthur & Peter Buck, Gang Gang Dance, Gruff Rhys, Manic Street Preachers, Fall, Megadeth, Chrissie Hynde And More

In The News: Johnny Marr, Matthew Sweet, Joseph Arthur & Peter Buck, Gang Gang Dance, Gruff Rhys, Manic Street Preachers, Fall, Megadeth, Chrissie Hynde And More

Heeeeere's Johnny! Smiths co-founder, former MAGNET cover star and one of the greatest guitarists currently walking the planet Johnny Marr
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Essential New Music: Tania Chen With Thurston Moore, David Toop, And Jon Leidecker's "John Cage: Electronic Music For Piano"

Essential New Music: Tania Chen With Thurston Moore, David Toop, And Jon Leidecker’s “John Cage: Electronic Music For Piano”

The title of Electronic Music For Piano isn’t the only paradoxical thing about it. The score, which updates an earlier
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