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Happy birthday Ron Blair (Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers). “Always the best bass player in town.” —T.P. The post Happy Birthday Ron Blair (Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy birthday Kenney Jones (Who, Faces, Small Faces). Let the good times roll. The post Happy Birthday Kenney Jones (Who, Faces, Small Faces) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Sturgill Simpson is just getting back into the swing of performing after three years off the road. He made up for that lost time Saturday night with a whopping three hour-long set at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. In July, he shared Passage Du Desir, his first album under the new moniker Johnny Blue Skies;  » Read More

It’s been over three decades since Canadian country legend k.d. lang performed with the Reclines, the band she shared the stage with throughout the ’80s. That changed Saturday night when they all reunited to celebrate lang’s induction into the Canadian Country Music Hall Of Fame.  » Read More

Josh Tillman has said he’ll be releasing a new Father John Misty album before the year is over. Assuming that’s true, he’s going about the rollout in a very Tillman fashion: Being cryptic and secretive and sneaky about it. I don’t envy the hardcore Mistyheads for this reason. But a couple of weeks ago,  » Read More

Last Saturday night, Omaha band Neva Dinova played a show at Chicago’s Lincoln Hall. Also on the evening’s bill was an act called 7:55 Saturday Radical Stage Riot Boys. If you look at the schedule for next weekend’s Riot Fest, you’ll see that Bright Eyes are scheduled to play the Radical Stage at 7:55 on Saturday.  » Read More

First, there were those fake AI-generated “Swifties For Trump” memes that Donald Trump reposted, but denied having any hand in creating. Then, after Swift publicly endorsed Kamala Harris for president, Trump proclaimed that he’s “not a Taylor Swift fan” because “she’s a very liberal person.”  » Read More

There were a whole lotta red and blue lights (sorry) at Playboi Carti’s Brooklyn pop-up show Saturday night. The enigmatic rapper, fresh off announcing new album Music and beefing with Lucki, was hosting a public birthday party for himself (announced the day before) at Brooklyn Warehouse in Crown Heights when cops showed up and shut the whole thing down.  » Read More

In 2021, the uncompromising New Orleans dance-punk hedonists Special Interest released their absolutely sick album Endure. Today, they’ve followed that LP with a new self-released single. Special Interest came out with a revised version of their song “Disco” last year, but the fresh track “Nothing Grows Here”  » Read More