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25 years ago today, Los Lobos released This Time. It’s never too late. Read our Q&A with Steve Berlin: The post Los Lobos Released “This Time” 25 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Frank Ocean famously doesn’t do interviews. The reclusive musician last sat down for one in 2021, which was his first in two years; on Friday, a profile on producer Michael Uzowuru appeared in The New York Times and featured some quotes from the Blonde singer.  » Read More

In May, Sean Kingston and his mother Janice Turner were arrested and charged with fraud. Now, the 34-year-old “Beautiful Girls” singer born Kisean Anderson and 61-year-old Turner are facing decades in prison.  » Read More

Earlier this year, Unto Others, the Portland goth-metal band formerly known as Idle Hands, released their single “Butterfly.” That song will appear on the band’s just-announced new album, which is called Never, Neverland and which is coming in a couple of months.  » Read More

We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.  » Read More

Lil Yachty likes to swing between extremes. A few weeks ago, Yachty and James Blake released the moody, architectural collaborative album Bad Cameo. Now, Yachty has followed that one by dropping an energetic, chaotic new rap single. I guess he can just keep doing this forever, making experimental art-piece albums and then immediately going back to cranking out one-off bangers.  » Read More

It’s been just over a year since the Smashing Pumpkins released their triple album/rock opera Atum, and they’ve already got another record ready to go. The 10-track Aghori Mhori Mei will be out two weeks from today. In a statement, Billy Corgan says the band attempted to return to the recording methods that yielded their early classics:  » Read More

For the first time in four years, a new Gillian Welch and David Rawlings album is on the way. In fact, it will be out just five weeks from now. Woodland is named for the couple’s Woodland Sound Studios in Nashville, which was badly damaged by a tornado but is back up and running now.  » Read More

In an age where rap icons are either literally pissing on their Grammy trophies or using their own victory speeches to figuratively shit on them, Denzel Curry stands out as one of the few young spitters who’d actually love to have one. From the beginning of his career, he’s showcased a knack for engrossing aesthetics and an affinity for ostensibly challenging big-picture concepts — a constellation of highbrow connotations usually […]