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Happy birthday Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite). Have a good blues party. Read White Lies in MAGNET on BBC6 and Letts’ Culture Clash Radio show: The post Happy Birthday Don Letts (Big Audio Dynamite) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Output's signature delay plugin, Portal, was released in 2019—a millennium in music-production terms—and countless other plugins have emerged as competitors since then. While many producers tout it as one of their all-time favorites, one must wonder if they're just repeating old sentiments from ...Continue reading  » Read More

If a task doesn't require a great deal of cognitive function and becomes repetitive, music can be a powerful way to diminish task fatigue. Task fatigue appears when you complete your assignments repeatedly, and they slowly begin to feel frustrating and tedious. Instead, music can distract your ...Continue reading  » Read More

Last year, Keanu Reeves’ band Dogstar reunited for the first time in two decades, and their first album in 23 years, Somewhere Between The Palm Trees And Power Lines, came out in October. Reeves and his Dogstar bandmates Robert Mailhouse and Bret Domrose participated in a What’s In My Bag?  » Read More

Last summer Ira Glass, a new Chicago post-hardcore band named after the This American Life guy, shared their first demo recordings. When I discovered this band via Chicago music journalist Leor Galil, I posted the demo on Stereogum. That post has become a T-shirt. As seen on the band’s Instagram story and archived by Galil on Bluesky,  » Read More

Late last year, the New Jersey rock institution Screaming Females announced that they were breaking up. Today, bandleader Marissa Paternoster has announced her debut graphic novel, Merriment, which she created alongside Don Giovanni Records owner Joe Steinhardt. Here’s the jacket description:  » Read More

In November, Sheer Mag announced their new album Playing Favorites and their signing to Jack White’s Third Man Records. They shared the title track, and now they’re back with “Moonstruck” and a video directed by Ryan Schnackenberg.  » Read More

Kali Uchis, connoisseur of a gooey R&B that dims the lights of the mind and puts the blunt between your fingers, opens her fourth album in a curl of smoke and giggles, the bass a down blanket to fall into.  » Read More

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