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Happy 75th birthday Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath). No rest for the wicked. Read our Hidden Gems review of Sabbath’s Never Say Die!: The post Happy 75th Birthday Ozzy Osbourne (Black Sabbath) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy 60th birthday Joe Lally (Fugazi). Let it burn. Read our Fugazi Over/Under: The post Happy 60th Birthday Joe Lally (Fugazi) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy birthday Kevin Whelan (Aeon Station, Wrens). The years remind us. Read our Q&A with Whelan and his Aeon Station crew from last year: The post Happy Birthday Kevin Whelan (Aeon Station, Wrens) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

40 years ago today, Slayer released debut album Show No Mercy. Evil has no boundaries. Read our live review of Slayer’s final NYC show: The post Slayer Released Debut Album “Show No Mercy” 40 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Michael Stipe is the subject of a lengthy new profile in this week’s edition of The New York Times Magazine, reported over the past year as the former R.E.M. frontman worked on-and-off on his long-gestating solo album. Stipe has been talking about that album for a while now,  » Read More

Daryl Hall is currently in the midst of a legal battle with his songwriting partner John Oates, but that hasn’t stopped him from rolling out new episodes of his Live From Daryl’s House web series, which relaunched a couple months ago and has hosted performances from Robert Fripp,  » Read More

Olivia Rodrigo was presented with a Storyteller Of The Year award at Variety‘s annual Hitmakers brunch. St. Vincent handed over the award, describing her as a “precious baby angel muffin, but if a precious baby angel muffin were also tough as nails and cool as hell.”  » Read More

KISS played what will purportedly be their final “final show ever” on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. At the show, they introduced the digital avatars that will be replacing them. As the current lineup — Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer, and Eric Singer — left the stage for the last time,  » Read More

Back in September, Harlem underground rap veteran Smoke DZA teamed up with the always-unpredictable production mastermind Flying Lotus to release the collaborative EP Flying Objects. Flying Lotus might be rooted in rap, but he doesn’t make straight-up hip-hop beats too often these days. It was a blast to hear him lock into a kind of psychedelic boom-bap,  » Read More