MAGNET Magazine
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Real Music Alternatives Established 1993
The Basement Vapes Vol 25: MAGNET’s Mitch Myers takes a quick dip into an old folk song and pays tribute to the Irish bards of the ages (@glenhansard.bsky.social, @theframes.bsky.social, @theswellseason.bsky.social). Photo by Chris Sikich (@countfeed.bsky.social): magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/11/t...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jonathan Something’s “Gasoline” (High Shelter, @virginmusic.com). “A distillation of the confusion and yearning I felt while making the record and an exercise in performing succinct acrobatics around universal truths.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/11/m...
Essential New Music: The Thousand Yard Stairs’ “The Thousand Yard Stairs.” 22 years ago, Sam Powers (briefly in Superdrag and who played bass with Guided By Voices on the band’s 2003 European tour) recorded these six songs, and now he has finally set them free: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/10/e...
Every week, MAGNET posts a new illustration by David Lester on our website. The @meccanormal.bsky.social guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...
Five Questions with Deer Tick’s John McCauley (@atorecords.bsky.social, @yeproc.bsky.social). “It’s an album I wrote thinking about plumbers, electricians, veterans, the elderly, petty criminals and so on.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/07/f...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Sledding’s “My Golden Tempo.” “We look to bands that pull off a tight, heavy live sound without feeling busy. Namely, Linkin Park.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/07/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Captains Of Entropy’s “On Juno” (@bighasslemedia.bsky.social). “With this song about to finally see the light of day, the pain of that stolen synth stings a little less.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/06/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Star Room Boys’ “Why Do Lonely Men And Women Want To Break Each Other’s Hearts?” (Strolling Bones). “I wanted to come up with a title that sounded like a really obscure, super-specific proverb or axiom.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/06/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Myth Math goes track by track on “Tongues” (Illegal Art). “This shifts the mood from communal acceptance to metaphors of escaping boundaries and dogmas in search of a more vibrant, colorful world.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/05/m...
Essential New Music: Michael Foster / Christian Weber / Michael Griener’s “Selections From The Gutter” (@relativepitch.bsky.social, @michaelgriener.bsky.social) “Griener and Weber match Foster’s fierceness, and their improvisations magnify its impact.” Our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/05/e...
Q&A with Parts & Labor (@ejrc.bsky.social, @clarioncallmedia.bsky.social). “The world took a turn, and it felt like if we were ever gonna do something again, this was the time.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/04/a...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Strange Lot’s “Eyes For Ya” (Greenway). “It’s about wanting something different, stepping into new chapters of life and wondering who we’re supposed to become as we move through them.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/03/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Katherine Perkins’ “Molecules” video (Twelve | Eight, Clandestine). “I was feeling submerged by the sense of being a tiny, frictionless fleck in the universe with only moderate use to society.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/08/03/m...
Every week, MAGNET posts a new illustration by David Lester on our website. The @meccanormal.bsky.social guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Lila Forde’s “Fantasies.” “It’s about wishing with your whole body you could know what it’s like to be with that person.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/31/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Family Stereo goes track by track on "The Thread" (@bellaunion.bsky.social, @charmschoolmedia.bsky.social). “I was trying to emulate a @bigthiefmusic.bsky.social song when I first started writing this, but it inevitably went in its own direction”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/31/m...
Five Questions with Spacemoth (@spacemoth.bsky.social, Greenway, @riotactmedia.bsky.social). “I try to give myself time to daydream day to day and stay away from the digital world when I can.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/30/f...
Five Questions with Pomelo (Sad Magic, Clandestine). “There’s a great difference between being something and just being. In expecting nothing, you may receive everything.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/29/f...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Eilir Pierce’s “Do-List” video (@beastpruk.bsky.social). “@davidbowiereal.bsky.social’s ‘Life On Mars?’ was one reference—that stark, overexposed space where the performer, the song and the camera have to hold your attention”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/29/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ma Rainey’s “Oh Papa Blues” (Black Swan, George H. Buck Jazz Foundation). This previously unreleased alternate take is one of 118 tracks on “Mother Of The Blues: The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/28/m...
Essential New Music: Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson’s “Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings” (@nonesuch.com, @maryhalvorson.bsky.social). “Freewheeling duets that make public a playing partnership that’s developed mostly in private over the past decade and a half”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/27/e...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Reverends’ “Sunshine Girl” (@littlecloudrecords.bsky.social, @strickdand.bsky.social). “I told everyone in the band to play the filthiest, most fucking fuzz-drenched, ’90s-sounding shit they could.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/27/m...
Every week, MAGNET posts a new illustration by David Lester on our website. The @meccanormal.bsky.social guitarist is visually documenting people, places and events from his band’s 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...
Brand-new Q&A with Pete Yorn. “‘All The Beauty’ has more than just a literal meaning. Sometimes it’s a question of looking within, as that can be an ominous thing. Good things happen, bad things happen, some things don’t make any sense. That’s part of the beauty”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/24/a...
Five Questions with Ill Peach (Handwritten). “Sometimes you can be in a vacuum of your own creativity and not really know what you sound like. All we know is the music feels good to us.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/24/f...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Feral Foster’s “New World Blues.” “A recording is a coordinate in musical spacetime, a familiar fleck along your timeline, something you can’t get back to again.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/23/m...
Five Questions with Atta Boy (Diamond City, Many Hats). “Even in shitty times, we can grow and evolve and find community, while still acknowledging and respecting that things do feel bad right now.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/22/f...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Zac Schulze Gang’s “Hellhounds On My Trail” video (Ruf). “Live, the song live takes on many different forms. We’ve found ourselves improvising sections & adding new ones. It sums up how we sound as a band.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/22/m...
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Kyle Kimbrell’s “Helmet Head” (@pavementpr.bsky.social). “My whole life, I’ve had a pretty big head. My uncle used to tease me about it, and that’s how the ‘Helmet Head’ nickname was born. It stuck with me more than I realized”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/21/m...
