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Happy birthday John Mellencamp. Paint the mother pink. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. The post Happy Birthday John Mellencamp appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

20 years ago today, the Ladybug Transistor released its self-titled fifth album. You’ll find it. Read our Ladybug Transistor Q&A: The post The Ladybug Transistor Released Its Self-Titled Fifth Album 20 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

We did not get new Wrens music today, but we did get For All The Dogs at 6AM (woof). Savor it because Drake says he’s about to take a year off to deal with crazy stomach problems.  » Read More

On this Bandcamp Friday, Marissa Nadler and Rob Burger have delivered a mesmerizing cover of the Band’s “Whispering Pines.” As heard on the Band’s self-titled LP, the Richard Manuel/Robbie Robertson tune is already in Nadler’s slow, sad, spectral wheelhouse, at least until the sunlight breaks through and the chorus goes full gospel.  » Read More

Lauren Mayberry of Chvrches wrapped up her first North American solo tour last week, and Thursday she kicked off the European leg back home in Scotland. Mayberry worked some fun covers into her sets over here, including “Like A Prayer,” “Down By The Water,”  » Read More

Ratboys’ “Black Earth, WI” is one of this year’s great guitar jams, long and loose and full of that sweet, sweet six-string action. The potential for air guitar is high on that one. So it makes perfect sense that the song has been added to Rock Band,  » Read More

The Massachusetts hardcore band Vantage Point shares members with groups like Final Gasp and C4, but they sound nothing like them. Instead, Vantage Point play down-the-middle straight-edge hardcore that draws in the fervent, passionate bands who made up the Revelation Records roster in the early ’90s. Their 2019 debut EP An Answer You Won’t Find really impressed me,  » Read More

As usual, Drake’s new album For All The Dogs is stuffed with guests, samples, subliminals, oversharing, and all manner of pop culture ephemera. One ingredient in the stew: About two and a half minutes into the Chief Keef collab “All The Parties,” Drake sings the chorus of “  » Read More

This motherfucker. I woke up this morning, and I was upset. The energy around Drake has been truly dark lately. The anhedonia. The self-indulgence. The persistent dwelling on petty grievances. The open, vulnerable reveling in his own worst confirmed-dickhead-bachelor romantic tendencies. The endless diminishing-returns dominance. The too-big-to-fail corporate omnipresence.  » Read More