Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ Tue, 05 May 2026 19:59:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-MagnetIcon-32x32.jpg Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ 32 32 Five Questions With Alex Edkins (Weird Nightmare, METZ) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/five-questions-with-alex-edkins-weird-nightmare-metz/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-questions-with-alex-edkins-weird-nightmare-metz Tue, 05 May 2026 08:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=344535 Toronto trio METZ shut things down (“on hiatus”) in 2024 after five LPs spread out over 12 years. When a band ends, some members may not know what’s next, but singer/songwriter/guitarist Alex Edkins smartly had Weird Nightmare in his back pocket. He recorded Weird Nightmare’s self-titled, lo-fi 2022 debut at home during the pandemic and […]

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Chestnut Grove’s “Xpress Urself” Video https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-chestnut-groves-xpress-urself-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-chestnut-groves-xpress-urself-video Tue, 05 May 2026 08:30:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=344620 Chestnut Grove’s latest single is the product of a solitary sticky riff. Guitarist John Tyler was fooling around on a microKORG synth/vocoder during a soundcheck—and out came something that immediately attached to the other members and wouldn’t let go. “The next chance we got, we wrote the rest of the song around it,” says Dee, […]

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]]> Happy Birthday Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/happy-birthday-ian-mcculloch-echo-bunnymen/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-ian-mcculloch-echo-bunnymen Tue, 05 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=209037 Happy birthday Ian McCulloch (Echo & The Bunnymen). Ballyhoo and bedbugs, bedbugs and ballyhoo. Read our Bunnymen Over/Under:

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]]> Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers Released “Hard Promises” 45 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-released-hard-promises-45-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tom-petty-and-the-heartbreakers-released-hard-promises-45-years-ago-today Tue, 05 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=263928 45 years ago today, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers released Hard Promises. Tom hopes you paid no more than $8.98 for this album.

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]]> Happy Birthday Bill Ward (Black Sabbath) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/happy-birthday-bill-ward-black-sabbath/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-bill-ward-black-sabbath Tue, 05 May 2026 07:45:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=209042 Happy birthday Bill Ward (Black Sabbath). Nibby! Read our Hidden Gems review of Sabbath’s Never Say Die!:

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]]> Room For Two At The Heartbreak Hotel: Elvis Presley Scored His First Number-One Album And Single 70 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/room-two-heartbreak-hotel-elvis-presley-scored-first-number-one-album-single-70-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=room-two-heartbreak-hotel-elvis-presley-scored-first-number-one-album-single-70-years-ago-today Tue, 05 May 2026 07:30:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=209032 70 years ago today, Elvis Presley scored his first number-one album (his self-titled debut) and single (non-LP track “Heartbreak Hotel”). Misery loved company. Read our review of Elvis’ essential 60-CD The Album Collection:

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]]> Happy Birthday Steve Stevens (Billy Idol) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/happy-birthday-steve-stevens-billy-idol/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-steve-stevens-billy-idol Tue, 05 May 2026 07:15:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=228062 Happy birthday Steve Stevens (Billy Idol). Steal a car and go to Las Vegas. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Stevens and Idol live in 2019:

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]]> Happy Birthday Adele https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/05/happy-birthday-adele/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-adele Tue, 05 May 2026 07:00:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=209047 Happy birthday Adele. God, this reminds us of when we were young.

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]]> Five Questions With Paula Kelley (Drop Nineteens) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/04/five-questions-with-paula-kelley-drop-nineteens/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-questions-with-paula-kelley-drop-nineteens Mon, 04 May 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=343998 More than two decades removed from her last solo album, Paula Kelley has reemerged with the wonderfully luminescent Blinking As The Starlight Burns Out (Wharf Cat). Following her early run as an integral member of Boston-based shoegaze pioneers Drop Nineteens, Kelley has sustained her craft over the years with behind-the-scenes work as an arranger and […]

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]]> Essential New Music: The Arrivals’ “Payload” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/05/04/essential-new-music-the-arrivals-payload/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=essential-new-music-the-arrivals-payload Mon, 04 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=344531 Chicago’s the Arrivals—well, singer/guitarist Isaac Thotz now lives in L.A., while fellow singer/guitarist Little Dave Merriman, bassist Paddy Costello and drummer Ronnie DiCola have stayed local—uh, have arrived with Payload, their first record in 16 damn years. That gap apparently wasn’t caused by anything other than life getting in the way, but we welcome this […]

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