Mt. Joy: Get Happy

Mt. Joy: Get Happy

Mt. Joy’s fast and furious 21st-century success story If the internet hadn’t upended the music industry 18 years ago, it’s
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Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier's "Rifles & Rosary Beads"

Essential New Music: Mary Gauthier’s “Rifles & Rosary Beads”

Where have all the soldiers gone? American battles once pitted brother against brother and accentuated the gap between parents and
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In The News (Reissues And Collections Edition): Guns N' Roses, The Cure, Peter Murphy, Buffalo Springfield, Graham Nash, Yes, Johnny Mathis And More

In The News (Reissues And Collections Edition): Guns N’ Roses, The Cure, Peter Murphy, Buffalo Springfield, Graham Nash, Yes, Johnny Mathis And More

"Welcome to the jungle/We've got fun and games ... If you got the money/Honey, we got your disease": Appetite For
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Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC's "American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On"

Essential New Music: Keiji Haino + SUMAC’s “American Dollar Bill—Keep Facing Sideways, You’re Too Hideous To Look At Face On”

It had to happen. Keiji Haino has played with folk musicians and Faust, Peter Brötzmann’s Chicago Tentet and Merzbow. Sooner
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Normal History Vol. 476: The Art Of David Lester

Normal History Vol. 476: 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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Flashback Friday: Okkervil River (Their Past Life As A Blast)

Flashback Friday: Okkervil River (Their Past Life As A Blast)

It's been a week since Okkervil River's excellent new In The Rainbow Rain hit stores, and now that you're spending
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Throwback Thursday: Inara George And The Bird And The Bee

Throwback Thursday: Inara George And The Bird And The Bee

Hopefully, you just read our brand-new Essential New Music review of Inara George's Dearest Everybody. In case you didn't, it's
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MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Hawk's "Bomb Pop"

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Hawk’s “Bomb Pop”

David Hawkins ran his own personal Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy Camp, and all you got is his great new album.
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Essential New Music: Inara George's "Dearest Everybody"

Essential New Music: Inara George’s “Dearest Everybody”

The title of Inara George’s fourth solo album encapsulates the paradox of the music she makes. It’s breezy and delicate
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Wayback Wednesday: The Low Anthem (Through The Years)

Wayback Wednesday: The Low Anthem (Through The Years)

Hopefully, you just read our brand-new feature on the Low Anthem. In case you didn't, it's here. Now, we're taking
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The Low Anthem: Slow Dissolve

The Low Anthem: Slow Dissolve

The Low Anthem’s inner groove and the parable of the salt doll The story of the salt doll, like most
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Moby: The Second Comings

Moby: The Second Comings

Moby offers further proof that Morrissey was right: William Butler Yeats is on our side Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing
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Essential New Music: Moby's "Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt"

Essential New Music: Moby’s “Everything Was Beautiful, And Nothing Hurt”

The huge success of 1999’s Play has afforded Moby permanent artistic license, allowing him to be maddeningly unpredictable, to leap
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Albert Hammond Jr.: Living Through The Past

Albert Hammond Jr.: Living Through The Past

Albert Hammond Jr. is still saying yes to just saying no Diving into the wreck, as feminist poet Adrienne Rich
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Albert Hammond Jr.: Trouble Boys

Albert Hammond Jr.: Trouble Boys

Albert Hammond Jr. crafts an album about brotherhood, loss and existential identity—and it rocks “I knew the story,” says Albert
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Daniel Ellsworth + The Great Lakes Make MAGNET A Mix Tape

Daniel Ellsworth + The Great Lakes Make MAGNET A Mix Tape

We first introduced you to Daniel Ellsworth + The Great Lakes four years ago via "Sun Goes Out," off the
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In The News: Flaming Lips, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Rock*A*Teens, Mark Kozelek, Orb, John Wesley Harding, Killers, Grateful Dead, Guru, Giant Sand And More

In The News: Flaming Lips, Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson, Rock*A*Teens, Mark Kozelek, Orb, John Wesley Harding, Killers, Grateful Dead, Guru, Giant Sand And More

Kids, do you like the Flaming Lips? Well, June 1 is your lucky day, as Warner Bros. will release Greatest
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