Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:58:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-MagnetIcon-32x32.jpg Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ 32 32 Five Questions With Personal Trainer https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/five-questions-with-personal-trainer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=five-questions-with-personal-trainer Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=353422 For Willem Smit, making a Personal Trainer album had always left plenty of room for revision: tracks assembled, edited and reconsidered on a laptop until they reached a point that temporarily qualified as finished. But after years of touring, Smit slowly began to realize that songs never really stay finished anyway. So for Human Assholes […]

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: The Star Room Boys Go Track By Track On “Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other’s Hearts?” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/magnet-exclusive-the-star-room-boys-go-track-by-track-on-why-do-lonely-men-and-women-want-to-break-each-others-hearts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-the-star-room-boys-go-track-by-track-on-why-do-lonely-men-and-women-want-to-break-each-others-hearts Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=353988 The Star Room Boys weren’t raised on country music, coming to it as young adults in Athens, Ga., via legends like Lefty Frizzell, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. By the time they released Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other’s Hearts?, primary songwriter Dave Marr and the rest of the group […]

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]]> Happy Birthday Les Claypool (Primus, Claypool Lennon Delirium) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/happy-birthday-les-claypool-primus-claypool-lennon-delirium/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-les-claypool-primus-claypool-lennon-delirium Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0000 http://www.magnetmagazine.com/?p=201139 Happy birthday Les Claypool (Primus, Claypool Lennon Delirium). Pudding time! Read our Claypool Lennon Delirium cover story with Les and Sean Lennon (cover photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov) by Wilco’s Nels Cline:

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]]> New Order Released “Brotherhood” 40 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/new-order-released-brotherhood-40-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-order-released-brotherhood-40-years-ago-today Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=270491 40 years ago today, New Order released Brotherhood. But that’s the way that it goes. Read our New Order feature:

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]]> Happy Birthday Julien Baker (boygenius) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/happy-birthday-julien-baker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-julien-baker Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=300005 Happy birthday Julien Baker (boygenius). Turn on the lights. Photo for MAGNET by Chris Sikich. Read our Julien feature:

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]]> The Fall Released “Bend Sinister” 40 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/the-fall-released-bend-sinister-40-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-fall-released-bend-sinister-40-years-ago-today Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=354180 40 years ago today, the Fall released Bend Sinister. Sent us on a ‘delic kick. Read our classic Fall feature:

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]]> Happy Birthday Brett Anderson (Suede) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/happy-birthday-brett-anderson-suede/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-brett-anderson-suede Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:30:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=216960 Happy birthday Brett Anderson (Suede). Don’t be afraid if nobody loves you. Check out our 120 Reasons To Live on Suede’s “Animal Nitrate”:

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]]> The Chameleons Released “Strange Times” 40 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/the-chameleons-released-strange-times-40-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-chameleons-released-strange-times-40-years-ago-today Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=354184 40 years ago today, the Chameleons released Strange Times. Well, we were younger then. Read our review of the essential Manchester: North Of England: A Story Of Independent Music, Greater Manchester 1977-1993:

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]]> Happy Birthday Bill Rieflin (Ministry, R.E.M., Swans, King Crimson, Robyn Hitchcock, Et Al) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/29/happy-birthday-bill-rieflin-ministry-r-e-m-swans-king-crimson-robyn-hitchcock-et-al/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-bill-rieflin-ministry-r-e-m-swans-king-crimson-robyn-hitchcock-et-al Tue, 29 Sep 2026 07:00:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=249217 Happy birthday Bill Rieflin (Ministry, R.E.M., Swans, King Crimson, Robyn Hitchcock, et al). Birth of a giant. Read Rieflin in our MAGNET Classics on Swans’ Soundtracks For The Blind:

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]]> Essential New Music: Finn Loxbo’s “Lummernikt” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/09/28/essential-new-music-finn-loxbos-lummernikt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=essential-new-music-finn-loxbos-lummernikt Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=353863 For some musicians, mastering a particular sound or method is enough. Not Swedish guitarist Finn Loxbo. He has a penchant for extremes, whether it’s the brute noise he’s brought to improvisational trio Kyosaku and Anna Högsberg’s Attack or the ultra-minimal improvisations of Kommun. But Loxbo also prizes specificity. Lummernikt, his third solo LP in a […]

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