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Wolfgang Van Halen spilled the beans on his heart-pounding experience during the epic Taylor Hawkins tribute show in 2022. This rocker’s nerves were on fire as he took the stage, performing not one but two legendary Van Halen songs! “I was just suicidal with nerves,” Wolfgang confessed, revealing the immense pressure he felt. But wait,  » Read More

Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. features guest appearances from El-P and the Cure’s Robert Smith  » Read More

Her first official single under her own name arrives after her blockbuster turn in The Little Mermaid  » Read More

“El Alfa is a Latino legend and JT is someone I’ve admired forever,” Uchis said of her collaborators  » Read More

The mayor banned songs that promote violence or discriminate against women to help curb a rise in killings of women  » Read More

After penning a review of 2018’s Space Gun—and compiling a well-received (sarcasm) ranking of Guided By Voices’ 25 LPs up to that point—I half-seriously told MAGNET’s editor that I was retiring from writing about the band and its genius auteur Robert Pollard. (I did end up doing a blurb about the then-upcoming Warp And Woof a few months later.) It wasn’t that […] The post Essential New Music: Guided By Voices’  » Read More

Happy birthday President Obama. Artists you love who’ve been on the cover of MAGNET: the Black Keys, the National, Okkervil River, Jeff Tweedy, Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee and Lucy Dacus (who seems to consider you a war criminal). The print version of MAGNET could use a little Obamacare right now (hint, hint). Read Obama press secretary […] The post Happy Birthday President Obama appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy birthday Louis Armstrong. You made the world more wonderful. Read Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Baseball Project) in MAGNET on the Louis Armstrong House: The post Happy Birthday Louis Armstrong appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy 65th birthday Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds, Echo & The Bunnymen, Coral). Pure and simple. Read our 120 Reasons To Live on the Lightning Seeds: The post Happy 65th Birthday Ian Broudie (Lightning Seeds, Echo & The Bunnymen, Coral) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More