From The Desk Of The Black Watch: Several “Cool” Bands You Don’t Need To Listen To
John Andrew Fredrick has spent the last three decades as the sole constant in one of music's most perfect and
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Wolf Eyes: (Inner) Space Is The Place
On its near-500th release since forming in 1996, prolific Detroit noise-terrorists Wolf Eyes turn inward and down on Undertow To
From The Desk Of The Black Watch: One Uncool Genre Artist You Need to Listen To
John Andrew Fredrick has spent the last three decades as the sole constant in one of music's most perfect and
Essential New Music: Bob Dylan’s “Triplicate”
In a career dotted with perverse gestures, Bob Dylan’s recent busman’s holiday as a jazz/standard crooner is, superficially anyway, among
From The Desk Of The Black Watch: Three Uncool Bands You Need To Know
John Andrew Fredrick has spent the last three decades as the sole constant in one of music's most perfect and
A Conversation With The Magnetic Fields’ Stephin Merritt
Composer, multi-instrumentalist and bass/baritone vocalist Stephin Merritt may get tagged as maudlin, moody and miserable in his writings, but no
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A Conversation With The Black Watch’s John Andrew Fredrick
As Henry David Thoreau so eloquently observed in Walden, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Other men's
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Essential New Music: WHY?’s “Moh Lhean”
The Wolf brothers, Yoni and Josiah (but mostly the former), were always the mopey children of the lo-fi, bedsit, folksy,
Essential New Music: Wire’s “Silver/Lead”
Wire turns 40 this year. Any band with that many years and its own migratory festival could easily settle for
From The Desk Of Jason Falkner And R. Stevie Moore: My Wife
Ever since his departure from Jellyfish at the peak of the band’s brief early-’90s run, Jason Falkner has relished his
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Essential New Music: Sampha’s “Process”
Over the last half-decade, through collaborations with Jessie Ware, Solange, Frank Ocean, SBTRKT, Drake and others, Sampha Sisay has probably
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Normal History Vol. 424: 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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From The Desk Of Jason Falkner And R. Stevie Moore: My Dessert Concoction
Ever since his departure from Jellyfish at the peak of the band’s brief early-’90s run, Jason Falkner has relished his
Essential New Music: Xiu Xiu’s “Forget”
As Xiu Xiu is anything and anyone that wobbly, quivering singer/sound-sculptor Jamie Stewart wants (David Lynch’s music to Twin Peaks,
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Lydia Ainsworth: The Sweet Hereafter
Lydia Ainsworth explores the subconscious on Darling Of The Afterglow The songs Lydia Ainsworth composes to support her poignant explorations
From The Desk Of Jason Falkner And R. Stevie Moore: My Toy Bass
Ever since his departure from Jellyfish at the peak of the band’s brief early-’90s run, Jason Falkner has relished his
Essential New Music: Father John Misty’s “Pure Comedy”
Your enjoyment of Pure Comedy very strongly depends on what you expect from a Father John Misty album in 2017.
R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania
From The Desk Of Jason Falkner And R. Stevie Moore: My Collection Of Vintage Instruments
Ever since his departure from Jellyfish at the peak of the band’s brief early-’90s run, Jason Falkner has relished his
