Magnet Magazine

TiVo Party Tonight: Best Coast, Bobby Brown, Dr. Dog

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 23:00:57 +0000

Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Best Coast The surf rockers are supporting new album The Only Place. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Bobby Brown The R&B singer is promoting forthcoming album Masterpiece. [...]

From The Desk Of Garbage’s Steve Marker: Tom Morello

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:00:49 +0000

Garbage is back. And the band’s sound is the same—but different. Not Your Kind Of People (StunVolume) is the quartet’s first album since 2005, and the distance has got Garbage’s creative juices flowing in exciting ways. First single “Blood For Poppies” has the same driving drums, ripping guitars and biting lyrics as earlier LPs but [...]

MP3 At 3PM: Literature

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 19:00:03 +0000

The pretty melody and high speed of “Criminal Kids” by Literature brings to mind images of beach days and the coming heat of summer. The Texas band’s latest album, Arab Spring, is out now via Austin Town Hall Records. Download ”Criminal Kids” below. “Criminal Kids” (download):

Vintage Movies: “In A Lonely Place”

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 15:00:33 +0000

MAGNET contributing writer Jud Cost is sharing some of the wealth of classic films he’s been lucky enough to see over the past 40 years. Trolling the backwaters of cinema, he has worked up a list of more than 100 titles—from the ’20s through the ’80s—that you may have missed. A new selection, all currently [...]

From The Desk Of Garbage’s Butch Vig: “The Killing”

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 12:00:24 +0000

Film At 11: Pond

MAGNET Staff — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:00:54 +0000

The Australian rockers in Pond have a new video for “You Broke My Cool,” off Beard, Wives, Denim (Modular), and they shot it themselves, with a little help from their friends in Perth. The clip has some bizarre shots and eccentric aesthetics, but it’s pleasing and interesting nonetheless. You can tell they had a lot of fun making it, [...]

TiVo Party Tonight: El-P, Santana, Adam Lambert, Tenacious D, The Ting Tings

MAGNET Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:00:50 +0000

Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers: The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): El-P The Brooklyn rapper, with Islands frontman Nick Thorburn, is performing “Stay Down” off his forthcoming album, Cancer For Cure. The Tonight Show With Jay Leno (NBC): Santana Santana is [...]

From The Desk Of Garbage’s Steve Marker: Stand-Up Comedy

MAGNET Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 21:00:36 +0000

MP3 At 3PM: Brent Amaker & The Rodeo

MAGNET Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:00:02 +0000

Seattle-based country kingpin Brent Amaker (pronounced AW-mawk-er) and his band have just dropped a digital single as a teaser of their upcoming new album, and it’s a strangely apt cover of the 1983 Ric Ocasek new-wave classic “I Can’t Wait.” With his trademark stripped-back, old-school Bakersfield outlaw-country sound, Amaker turns the delirious ’80s crapstorm original [...]

120 Reasons To Live: The Mighty Lemon Drops

MAGNET Staff — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:00:17 +0000

Nothing did more to further the cause of Alternative Nation-building than 120 Minutes, MTV’s Sunday-night video showcase of non-mainstream acts. For nearly two decades, the program spanned musical eras from ’80s college rock to ’00s indie, with grunge, Britpop, punk, industrial, electronica and more in between. MAGNET raids the vaults to resurrect our 120 favorite and unjustly forgotten [...]