MAGNET Exclusive: Queen Quail goes track by track on “Narcissus.” “This is filled with little snapshots of memories—in particular, being close to sleep as a child and then hearing my mom receive the phone call that her father had passed away.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/23/m...

Live Review: Ben Folds (@actualbenfolds.bsky.social) at City Winery. It was a magical night of songs and stories by one of the more consistently great musicians of our time. Words and photos by Eric Ring: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/21/l...

Essential New Music: Bilders’ “Neverlasting” (Carbon, Grapefruit). “Bill Direen writes about human universality, one squinty-eyed closeup at a time.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/22/e...

Live Review: The 8 Nights Of Hanukkah With Yo La Tengo at Bowery Ballroom with the Sun Ra Arkestra and Jon Glaser. “@actualylt.bsky.social’s little corner of the indie-rock world is always well worth a visit this time of year.” By Corey duBrowa: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/16/l...

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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...

MAGNET’s Top 30 Albums Of 2025

Q&A with Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices). In a rare interview, Pollard discusses the making of “Thick Rich And Delicious” (MAGNET’s number-one album of the year), the possibility of touring again and the 44th GBV LP, due in the spring. “We do what we wanna do”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

Best Of 2025: Reissues/Collections

Best Of 2025: Singer/Songwriters

Best Of 2025: Hip Hop

Best Of 2025: Hard Rock

Best Of 2025: Jazz/Improv

Best Of 2025: Indie Roots

MAGNET Exclusive: Future Clouds And Radar goes track by track on “Big Weather” (Star Apple Kingdom). “I left the mic up, set my alarm for 3:30 a.m. and sang it in a single take with my eyes shut. Then I went back to bed.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/17/m...

Five Questions w/ Joshua Ackley (Dead Betties). “These are dark times and artists have a responsibility right now. Art is a record—it’s how future generations will understand what we went through. If you take your work seriously, this is the moment to over-create”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/17/f...

Five Questions with Milo Aukerman (Descendents) (Org Music). “I remember tracking ‘Silly Girl’ and Bill Stevenson saying, ‘You sound like Bobby Sherman,’ whose music I hadn’t heard. But I took it as a compliment anyway.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/16/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Tigers In Cairo’s covers of Jawbreaker’s “Do You Still Hate Me?” and Mission Of Burma’s “That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate.” “We hope you enjoy our take on these two classics.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/16/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: The Salt Collective goes track by track on “A Brief History Of Blindness” (@nadasurf.bsky.social @chris-stamey.bsky.social @aimeemann.bsky.social @millsish.bsky.social). “It’s almost like the soundtrack to a movie that anyone can imagine”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/15/m...

Live Review: @radiohead.wastehq.social at the Uber Arena, Berlin. “They are generational talents and continue to plow a determinedly unique and independent musical furrow, far above the heads of the majority of their musical peers.” By @coreydu.bsky.social: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/14/l...

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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...

MAGNET Exclusive: Boys Life goes track by track on “Ordinary Wars” (@spartanrecords.bsky.social). “Your ideas & feelings were the only thing someone couldn’t take from you. Now they found a way to take those. America is a business & we all work for the company”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/12/m...

MAGNET Classics Podcast: For episode 18, longtime contributor Hobart Rowland gets the real story behind the making of Heatmiser’s “Mic City Sons” (@thirdmanrecords.bsky.social, @heatmiserarchive.bsky.social, @neilgust.bsky.social, @theecoomes.bsky.social): magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/11/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Arlie’s “Is It Okay If I Love You.”“She said it was the sweetest gift anyone has ever given her—then she proceeded to drift further and further until she was out of my life. But at least this piece of music exists now.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/11/m...

Five Questions with Adrian Perry (El Cortina) (@declaredgoods.bsky.social). “The vision was to bring together early-’70s rock and pop/rock sounds—a Laurel Canyon vibe, w/ some edge. I was listening to Warren Zevon, Jackson Browne, @lindaronstadtmusic.bsky.social”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/10/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Neil Soiland’s “All The Things.” “We noticed it needed something else. I’d been working with (actress/model) Nemi Brooks on music and had a feeling she’d be perfect. Since then, she’s singing in my band, too.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/10/m...

Five Questions with Jason Narducy (@jasonnarducy.bsky.social). “I wasn’t sure if people would be interested in a book written by me … I enjoy stories that describe uncomfortable or precarious situations. Musicians get in those situations from time to time”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/09/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Twilark’s “Foxheart.” “The lyrics tie together the person I was as a teenager and the person I am today...Middle-period @remhq.bsky.social influenced me as a teenager. They also influenced elements in the production of this recording”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/09/m...

Essential New Music: Steve Gunn’s “Daylight Daylight” (No Quarter). While Gunn’s LPs in the 2010s felt like they were leading up to some sort of apex, his recent efforts are more of a moment-by-moment effort to figure out where he’s at & where he’s going. Review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/08/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Abronia’s “Weapons Against Progress” (Cardinal Fuzz, Feeding Tube, @abroniaband.bsky.social). “The toxins just build up and keep building up, and you’ve got to spew it out somehow. Music is one way.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/08/m...

5 Questions w/ @stevewynn.bsky.social (@dreamsyndicate.bsky.social). “Always been a fan of artists—Dylan, @davidbowiereal.bsky.social, @neilyoungarchives.bsky.social—who changed radically from album to album. Far cooler than establishing a brand & holding still”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/07/f...

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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...

Five Questions with Magic Fig (@eisrecords.bsky.social). “Our mantra was, ‘We will do anything to be playlisted and be liked by everyone. Oh, great Moloch, make us go viral.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/05/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Headfooter’s “Never Enough” (@minimumtablestacks.bsky.social @headfooter.bsky.social). “I’m happy to meet anyone in the ring who says this isn’t our magnum opus. I want blood. I want teeth. I want ‘Manimal’ back on TV.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/05/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Six Going On Seven’s “King Tide” (Spartan). “It’s a tribute to—or a celebration of—the freedom extended to everyone in a very finite way. Low art in a city near you, youthful ideation, a kiss that lingers years on.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Bleed Electric’s “This Is My Masterpiece” video. “This video isn’t meant to reassure anyone. It’s meant to confront, disrupt and disturb—a mirror held to a world desperate to look away.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/04/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Human Potential’s “Practice Songs For The Unloved” (What Delicate). “I began messing around with a chord sequence that seemed to demand that it be anchored by an iconic Hal Blaine, ‘Be My Baby’ drum beat.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/03/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Los Frankies’ “I’m On Drugs.” “I feel like this album ended up somewhere between the White Stripes and @qotsa-official.bsky.social.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Chicago Farmer’s “Peshtigo” (LoHi). “Thirty-some years ago, I discovered Hank Williams and Nirvana on the same day. I remember thinking that someday I was going to combine those two sounds. This seemed like the perfect song to do so”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Nikita Lev’s “Kill Her Mind.” “It’s like your mind is working against you, replaying things over and over, and you just want it to shut off. The video is an invitation to bring more context and color to the song.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/01/m...

Essential New Music: Pat Thomas’ “Hikmah” (Tao Forms, @aum-fidelity.bsky.social). “‘Hikmah’ is his 1st solo piano album to be released by an American label & it’s a doozy. Well-recorded & beautifully packaged, it’s a perfect way to get acquainted.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/01/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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...

Q&A with @chrisdeville.bsky.social, author of “Such Great Heights: The Complete Cultural History Of The Indie Rock Explosion” (St. Martin's Press, @suchgreatheights.bsky.social). “Brooklyn in the 2000s was like everyone's local scene”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/28/a...

Five Questions w/ Brainwasher (@mothland.bsky.social). “The world is moving so fast around us & it makes me feel like we’re moving in slow motion, even when we aren’t in one place for very long. It reminds me to cherish these times, experiences & relationships”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/28/f...

Happy Thanksgiving from Ray Davies and MAGNET! It’s time to cap off the day with our cover-story Q&A with @thekinksofficial.bsky.social frontman done by Yo La Tengo’s Ira Kaplan (@actualylt.bsky.social): magnetmagazine.com/2008/06/01/r...

Happy Thanksgiving from Tofurky and MAGNET!

MAGNET Exclusive: Jillian Jacqueline goes track by track on “MotherDaughterSisterWife.” “It took me a long time to understand that just because you love someone, it doesn’t mean you have to accept or tolerate the pain they cause.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/26/m...

Five Questions with Katie Schecter (Soul Step). “I want to leave a meaningful body of work behind when I’m one day not on this Earth. That’s why I do what I do.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/25/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Alexa Rose goes track by track on “Atmosphere” (First City Artists). “I met a songwriter once who said that writing a song could make you feel like you’ve had some kind of say—or power—in a situation that’s totally out of your control”: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Pete Fij’s “Love’s Coming Back” (Tip Top). “The ghost of Leonard Cohen softly whispered, ‘Get off my street, sonny,’ into my ear, so I thought it pertinent to take heed and rediscover my more upbeat side.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/11/24/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 42-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...