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Happy birthday Pat Smear (Foo Fighters, Germs, Nirvana). So we fell in love with a musician … Read our review of 2017’s essential Foo Fighters album: The post Happy Birthday Pat Smear (Foo Fighters, Germs, Nirvana) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

15 years ago today, the Faint released Fasciinatiion. Cut through time. Read our Faint Q&A: The post The Faint Released “Fasciinatiion” 15 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

John Gosling, former keyboardist with the Kinks from 1970 through 1978, has died. The Kinks confirmed Gosling’s passing via social media, writing, “We are deeply saddened by the news of the passing of John Gosling. We are sending our condolences to John’s wife and family.” Gosling was 75.  » Read More

Starting in November, a new compilation honoring Drivin N Cryin leader Kevn Kinney will be released in four parts. According to R.E.M. HQ, Let’s Go Dancing: A Celebration Of Kevn Kinney will kick off with the first quarterly installment: Said The Firefly To The Hurricane (out November 24 via Tasty Goody Records).  » Read More

Last night, the 1975 performed at Lollapalooza 2023, and frontman Matty Healy had a star sighting from the stage. While playing “Robbers” from the band’s 2013 debut, Healy spied Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge in the photo pit, pointed at him, and ran offstage mid-song for an embrace.  » Read More

Last summer, Baltimore pop-punk trio Pinkshift released their debut album Love Me Forever, and they quickly followed up with April’s single “to me.” Now, Pinkshift have announced a new EP, suraksha, out October 13 via Hopeless Records. It features “to me,”  » Read More

Ever since they released their debut album The Record, it’s been a wildly busy last few months for boygenius. Bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker joined Phoebe Bridgers on Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour; they hit the road for June’s Re:Set dates, they’re currently on a giant North American tour culminating with dates at NY’s Madison Square Garden and LA’s Hollywood Bowl;  » Read More

In 1981, the college roommates Matt Piucci and David Roback formed a psychedelic rock band called Rain Parade, and Roback’s brother Steven soon joined up on bass. Rain Parade went on to become a crucial part of the Paisley Underground, a tight community of Los Angeles bands who took inspiration from punk but whose sound owed more to starry-eyed ’60s folk-rock.  » Read More

The Barbie soundtrack is no masterpiece, but when it hits, it hits. One of the best songs on the album is “What Was I Made For,” the breathy, melancholic, and kinda Phoebe Bridgers-ish Billie Eilish ballad that works as a bit of meta-reflection on Eilish’s own career.  » Read More