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Happy 85th birthday Bill Withers. We wish you well. R.I.P. The post Happy 85th Birthday Bill Withers, R.I.P. appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Some of the usual suspects in this month's chart including Amelie Lens, Hybrasil, and Layton Giordani. Peel back the outer layers though and you'll discover some hidden gems from smaller names including the top tune recipient known as Linear System. Get involved. Stream the tunes, buy them, and ...Continue reading  » Read More

The feverishly beloved one-man band Panopticon has emerged from the depths of rural Minnesota with 16 more minutes of swirling, churning, epic black metal. On “Cedar Skeletons,” an advance single from new album The Rime Of Memory, Austin Lunn gets assists from several peers. The track features Victor Sanchez on growling,  » Read More

Last we checked in on Mötley Crüe, their messy split from longtime guitarist Mick Mars was getting even messier. (The term “elder abuse” was thrown around.) At that point, the remaining band members were working on new songs, and they’ve since headed out on the road. Friday night, those travels led them to London club The Underground,  » Read More

Coldplay have been known to welcome special guests to the stage from time to time. Sunday, during the second of two shows at Letzigrund Stadion in Zurich, they brought a rather unexpected pal into the spotlight. After a Chris Martin speech about how there used to be a fifth Coldplay member who quit after three months to become the greatest tennis player of all time,  » Read More

Peter Gabriel recently wrapped up the first leg of his i/o tour, in support of a new album of the same that still doesn’t have a release date but has a whole lot of singles, including “Road To Joy,” “Four Kinds Of Horses,”  » Read More

When San Diego’s Bent Blue and Philly’s Sunstroke showed up in the same installment of our monthly hardcore column last summer, the former were pegged as circa-’86 Revolution Summer revivalists, the latter described as emo- and pop-punk-adjacent. This weekend they released a split EP that shows off those qualities.  » Read More

The Idol is over. Sunday night, the Weeknd’s controversial and much-discussed HBO series aired its season finale, which may well turn out to be a series finale. With the conclusion of the season came the final installment of its soundtrack, which has been rolling out from week to week. This last song dump included Idol supporting player Troye Sivan’s cover of George Harrison’s 1970 chart-topper “  » Read More

Until this week, Bratmobile, the surfy, garage-rocking riot grrrl pioneers from Olympia, had not performed since 2002. That changed with a pair of reunion gigs in California — first a secret club show in LA, then a festival in Oakland.  » Read More