Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:18:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://magnetmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-MagnetIcon-32x32.jpg Magnet Magazine https://magnetmagazine.com/ 32 32 Cut-Out Wizard: Robert Pollard Is Off To Art Business https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/cut-out-wizard-robert-pollard-is-off-to-art-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cut-out-wizard-robert-pollard-is-off-to-art-business Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=347279 LOUD: The Art Of Robert Pollard temporarily dissolves the line dividing art show from live gig. By Matthew CutterPhotos by Tim Bugbee/Tinnitus Photography The Annex Gallery in Highland Park, Mich., is hot. Not merely hot. Baking. Its two-story ceiling isn’t high enough to contain the expanding heat, even as taller windows spill in sunlight, illuminating […]

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Wesley Stace’s “One Last Heist” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-wesley-staces-one-last-heist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-wesley-staces-one-last-heist Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=347210 Every great heist movie kicks off with the same delusion: one last job. Equal parts noir narrative and existential meditation, Wesley Stace’s new single unfolds like a cinematic crime drama, only to reveal itself as something more personal. “He thought he was out, but they’ve reeled him back in for one final job,” says the […]

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Brother Bird’s “Pariah” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-brother-birds-pariah/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-brother-birds-pariah Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:30:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=347549 “I spent most of my adult life in groups I felt unknown and unwelcome in,” says Brother Bird’s Caroline Glaser, touching on the impetus behind her latest single. “You know it in your body, but it takes a while for your brain to catch up.” “Pariah” is a revelatory first taste of The Lodge In […]

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Okay Lindon’s “Pinto Vs. Pinto” Video https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-okay-lindons-pinto-vs-pinto-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-okay-lindons-pinto-vs-pinto-video Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=345743 “Pinto Vs. Pinto” dates back to pandemic lockdown, when Okay Lindon’s Dustin Smith and a group of friends challenged each other to write songs based on random prompts pulled from a 1978 The Book Of Lists. “Our friend mailed us each a torn page, and we had to write something from whatever we got,” says […]

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]]> The Smiths Released “The Queen Is Dead” 40 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/smiths-released-queen-dead-40-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=smiths-released-queen-dead-40-years-ago-today Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=211757 40 years ago today, the Smiths released The Queen Is Dead. And her Walkman started to melt. Read Josh Caterer (Smoking Popes) in MAGNET on The Queen Is Dead:

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]]> Happy Birthday Lindsey Jordan (Snail Mail) https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/happy-birthday-lindsey-jordan-snail-mail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-lindsey-jordan-snail-mail Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:45:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=282329 Happy birthday Lindsey Jordan (Snail Mail). We adore you. Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Snail Mail, Interpol and Car Seat Headrest live in 2019:

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]]> Happy 45th Birthday Ben Kweller https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/happy-birthday-ben-kweller/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-ben-kweller Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:30:00 +0000 http://magnetmagazine.com/?p=229906 Happy 45th birthday Ben Kweller. Go fly a kite. Read Rhett Miller (Old 97’s) in MAGNET on Kweller:

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]]> Nina Persson (Cardigans) Married Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think) 25 Years Ago Today https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/nina-persson-cardigans-married-nathan-larson-shudder-to-think-25-years-ago-today/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nina-persson-cardigans-married-nathan-larson-shudder-to-think-25-years-ago-today Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=265921 25 years ago today, Nina Persson (Cardigans) married Nathan Larson (Shudder To Think). Happy anniversary, lovefools. Read our classic Q&A with the pop power couple:

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]]> Happy 55th Birthday Tupac Shakur, R.I.P. https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/happy-birthday-tupac-shakur/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=happy-birthday-tupac-shakur Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:00:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=265925 Happy 55th birthday Tupac Shakur, R.I.P. All eyez on you.

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]]> MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Elephant Stone’s “Fascists Killed Yer Rock ‘N’ Roll” https://magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/15/magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-elephant-stones-fascists-killed-yer-rock-n-roll/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=magnet-exclusive-premiere-of-elephant-stones-fascists-killed-yer-rock-n-roll Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000 https://magnetmagazine.com/?p=347204 “You’d have to be living under a rock to ignore what’s happening,” says Elephant Stone’s Rishi Dhir, who’s made a career out of channeling personal and collective upheaval into expansive psych rock, sitar in hand. From spiritual rebirth to climate anxiety to the grief for Dihr’s late mother that informs its latest work, the Montreal-based […]

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