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55 years ago today, the Grateful Dead released Aoxomoxoa. Doin’ that rag. Read our Q&As with Bob Weir and Bill Kreutzmann and our review of essential National-curated Dead tribute Day Of The Dead: The post The Grateful Dead Released “Aoxomoxoa” 55 Years Ago Today appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy birthday Eric Dolphy. Something sweet, something tender. Read Thrice’s Ed Breckenridge in MAGNET on Dolphy: The post Happy Birthday Eric Dolphy appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy birthday John Taylor (Duran Duran). All you need is now. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read our “Guilty Pleasures” Sound Check on Duran Duran’s Rio and other albums (by ABBA, Def Leppard, Coldplay and more) we love to listen to home alone: The post Happy Birthday John Taylor (Duran Duran) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

The Corona Capital festival will return to Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City this Nov. 15-17, and its lineup is pleasingly random. The big-font headliners for each day are as follows: Green Day, Toto, and Zedd on Friday; Shawn Mendes, Melanie Martinez, and New Order on Saturday; and Paul McCartney, Queens Of The Stone Age,  » Read More

“Summer Babe (Winter Version),” the opening track from Pavement’s unfathomably influential 1992 debut album Slanted And Enchanted, is one of the greatest and most iconic indie rock songs of all time. Call it hyperbole if you wish, but if you needed me to define “What is indie rock?” I might point you in that song’s direction.  » Read More

The Roots Picnic — the once Philly-centric Black music festival, which over 16 years has become a perennial soft launch for the summer concert season here in the Northeast — can now safely be thought of as a national event. Atlanta’s Gunna graces the same stage as North Carolina’s Fantasia Barrino.  » Read More

Mura Masa, the reliably entertaining alt-pop producer, has a new single out today. This one teams him with yeule, whose album softscars included lots of Mura Masa production. “We Are Making Out” features lots of blown-out synth and drum machine sounds but keeps its cool throughout, despite the sweaty subject matter.  » Read More

Back in January, two fans filed a lawsuit that accused Madonna of “false advertising,” claiming that her the opening night of her Celebration Tour in Brooklyn started much later than advertised. Sources said soundcheck issues caused the start time to be delayed one hour; mildly irritating, but probably not worth a lawsuit.  » Read More

Philadelphia’s Poison Ruïn are murky, spooky punks who are obsessed with medieval imagery, and they fucking rule. Last year, Poison Ruïn released their excellent sophomore LP Härvest and became a Stereogum Band To Watch. Today, they’ve announced plans to follow that LP with a new EP called Confrere.  » Read More