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45 years ago today, Hall & Oates released Along The Red Ledge. Melodies for memories. Watch our MAGNET television episode with John Oates: The post Hall & Oates Released “Along The Red Ledge” 45 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy 75th birthday Philly homeboy Robert Hazard. R.I.P. Girls still just want to have fun on the escalator of life. Read Philly Boy Roy in MAGNET on Hazard, the Hooters, the Nazz, Live Aid and other stuff that makes the City Of Brotherly Love the City That Loves Youse Back: The post Happy 75th Birthday Robert Hazard,  » Read More

To celebrate our 30th anniversary and all the great music that made the past three decades special, MAGNET contributors past and present chose their 30 favorite albums released between 1993 and 2022. The only rules were that each record has to be a full-length and that no artist could be represented more than once in […] The post MAGNET’s Brennan Cavanaugh Picks His 30 Favorite LPs Of The Past 30 […]

Today has been declared The Flaming Lips Day in San Francisco. The band was honored with a ceremony on Sunday afternoon, prior to their headlining performance at the city’s Stern Grove Festival. Though the band was formed in Oklahoma City and is most closely associated with that location, they did have their first show outside their home state in San Francisco in 1985 and have,  » Read More

Last night, the Strokes performed at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, and they had some surprises for the audience. They played their First Impressions Of Earth track “15 Minutes” for the first time in 2006. They brought out Regina Spektor to sing their 2004 collaboration “Modern Girls &  » Read More

Marnie Stern, the wild-hearted expressionist guitar hero who released four albums of explosively shred-happy indie rock in the ’00s and ’10s, has been out of the game for a long while. Stern released The Chronicles Of Marnia, her most recent album, just over a decade ago. Before last night,  » Read More

“Cedar Skeletons,” our first preview of Panopticon’s new album The Rime Of Memory, was a 16-minute black metal behemoth. The second single is nothing like it. “I Erindringens Høstlige Dysterhet” is the album’s opening track. It’s just two minutes long, and it leans all the way into the traditional folk side of Panopticon’s sound.  » Read More

Idris Vicuña, the Filipino alt-pop dude who performs under the name Eyedress (now for RCA Records), has struck up a collaboration with Mac DeMarco. The first of two Eyedress singles with DeMarco is out today, a chilled-out but vaguely creepy pop-rock tune called “The Dark Prince.” It also has a video by Phil Nisco and Julius Valledor in which Eyedress plays it cool and DeMarco goofs around a lot.  » Read […]

Baroness, baby! They can’t be stopped! The Philadelphia-based masters of big, hooky, nasty hard rock will return next month with Stone, the new album that they recorded while living in a rented vacation cabin in small-town New York. It’s going to kick ass! Thus far, we’ve posted two early singles,  » Read More