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Popular in the realms of future bass, all the way to techno and beyond, staggered synth plucks and chords progressions are a common go-to in electronic music. Using this technique can add unexpected grooves to your track and even create one of the most memorable components of your composition. This ...Continue reading

Attention Call of Duty players, Activision and Alpha Industries' long awaited B-15 flight jacket has finally dropped for collectors and Call of Duty cosplaying enthusiasts. Announced last year when Vanguard was released, the limited-edition flight jacket has finally hit the Alpha Industries website ...Continue reading

Humo is by la raza, pa’ la raza. A Spanish word for smoke, humo is the result of cannabis when ignited. Humo is on a mission to eliminate the stigma surrounding cannabis in the Latino community by celebrating its rich cultural history with the plant and normalizing its daily use. As a Mexican ...Continue reading

Wireless headphone technology gets better and better every year with improved battery life, higher quality connections, and better sound. Over the years the editors at Magnetic Magazine have reviewed a LOT of wireless headphones and we wanted to round of up some our favorites of all time. There is ...Continue reading

It’s been a minute since we’ve checked in on Launder, the poppy, shoegazey indie rock project of LA-based John Cudlip. But a full-length debut album is finally in the pipeline — Happening is happening on Ghostly this July — and its first two singles sound great.

Cursive’s Tim Kasher has been rolling out his new solo album Middling Age since the release of “I Don’t Think About You” in February. A couple weeks back we heard him team with punk lifers Laura Jane Grace and Jeff Rosenstock on “Forever Of The Living Dead.” And now, with the album just days away, he’s back with single #3.

In the early 2010s, there was a surge of indie rock bands that sounded restless and ramshackle and endearingly earnest. Much of this music came out through the label Salinas Records — bands like All Dogs, Radiator Hospital, and the early Crutchfield projects P.S. Eliot and Swearin’. Joyride! were the San Francisco outpost of that sound, combining the urgency of Bay Area pop-punk denizens Jawbreaker with some twee emotionality that […]

The annual Portland-area festival known as Pickathon hasn’t exactly been annual lately. Thanks to the pandemic, Pickathon hasn’t happened since 2019. This summer, though, Pickathon will return to Pendarvis Farm in Happy Valley, Oregon, and it’s bringing an impressively all-over-the-map lineup.

Phoebe Bridgers has a new song, “Sidelines,” featured in the upcoming Hulu show Conversations With Friends, which is an adaptation of the Sally Rooney book of the same name. You can hear a bit of it in the newly-released trailer for the show — the full song will be released this Friday. Conversations With Friends premieres on May 15.