Essential New Music: The Replacements’ “For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986”
Considered as the Replacements’ only professionally recorded full-length concert, For Sale: Live At Maxwell’s 1986 would be noteworthy. Here’s the
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Best Of 2017: World Music
MAGNET’s j. poet picks the best world-music releases of the year 1 Ozomatli Non Stop: Mexico To Jamaica (Cleopatra) 2 Amadou
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Essential New Music: Dungen’s “Häxan-Versions By Prins Thomas”
While prog and dub are rarely discussed together, this album makes a pretty strong case for bridging the two aesthetics
Best Of 2017: Noise
MAGNET’s Raymond Cummings picks the best noise releases of the year 1 Various Artists Approach To Fear: Regeneration (Karl Schmidt Verlag)
Normal History Vol. 458: 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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Pine Barons: Isolation Drills
The rural Jerseyites in Pine Barons make the most of their teenage wasteland Speaking of making music in Shamong, a
Best Of 2017: Indie Roots
MAGNET’s Devon Leger picks the best indie-roots releases of the year 1 Offa Rex The Queen Of Hearts (Nonesuch) 2 Zeal
Essential New Music: Jon Langford’s “Four Lost Souls”
Jon Langford releases albums at a feverish pace, whether under his own name or with one of his myriad bands,
Best Of 2017: Singer/Songwriter
MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland picks the best singer/songwriter releases of the year 1 Craig Finn We All Want The Same Things (Partisan)
A Conversation With Sparks
The hammering glam pop of 1974’s Kimono My House, the lush arpeggiating disco of 1979’s No. 1 In Heaven, the
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Best Of 2017: Metal
MAGNET’s Andrew Earles picks the best metal releases of the year 1 Sannhet So Numb (Profound Lore) 2 Boris Dear (Sargent House)
Film At 11: Delicate Steve
Today’s Film At 11 spotlights former MAGNET guest editor Delicate Steve’s ingenious video for “Tattered,” off the digital-only Cowboy Stories EP
Essential New Music: The Smiths’ “The Queen Is Dead”
It’s not an exaggeration to suggest that Morrissey + Marr ranks right up there with Lennon/McCartney, the Glimmer Twins and
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Best Of 2017: Reissues
MAGNET’s A.D. Amorosi picks the best reissues of the year 1 Hüsker Dü Savage Young Dü (Numero Group) 2 David
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Essential New Music: The Beatles’ “The Christmas Records”
Considering I’m writing this on the 37th anniversary of John Lennon’s death without realizing that it was the assassination’s destiny
