MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Drivin N Cryin’s “Why Don’t You Go Around.” “I’ve been influenced before by the success of parallel artists. It took me 20 years to enjoy the music, style & success w/o feeling like someone was passing me by”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Cat Clyde goes track by track on “Mud Blood Bone” (Concord). “These songs came like a message to my future self, alchemizing the emotions I was feeling to ground and release, to shed and renew. The spiral winds on, as do I.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of David Aaron Greenberg’s “Snap Shot” (@davidagreenberg.bsky.social). “Allen Ginsberg instilled in me a sense of dedication to the muse. He always said, ‘When the muse calls, answer—even if you have to get up at 4 a.m.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of White Denim’s “Ruby” (@bellaunion.bsky.social). “I get excited about making direct connections between my work & the history of rock & roll. Attempting to build something new upon existing foundations is life-affirming.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/01/m...

Five Questions with Asher White (@joyfulnoiserecs.bsky.social). “I spend work hours planning what I’ll record later—and that anticipation motivates me. I’m willing to take shitty wages if it means preserving the headspace to create.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/01/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Troy Mercy’s “Cheap Machine” (Gitcha). “Proper rock ’n’ roll should make the listener feel transcendent … Picture a time when you broke the rules and it was the right thing to do. I want to ignite that feeling in people.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/04/01/m...

Essential New Music: Joshua Abrams’ “Music For Pulse Meridian Foliation” (Drag City). If you’re looking for reliable access to your brain’s alpha state, this recording is your ticket. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/31/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Clover Stieve’s “How Big Can I Dream” (@cloveronthemic.bsky.social). “This song is for anyone who’s been told they’re unrealistic, too ambitious, too much. Maybe your dream isn’t random. Maybe it’s a compass.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/31/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ashley Riley’s “Easy On Me” (Riled Up). “Strength isn’t always about pushing. Sometimes, it’s giving yourself grace.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/31/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of La Sécurité’s “Snack City” (@mothland.bsky.social @bellaunion.bsky.social). “I imagined a self-centered character w/ food stains & a pizza face who spoke w/o thinking. We then name-dropped many snacks from many hours on the road”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/30/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Mike Richmond’s “Small Southern Towns” (Strolling Bones). “The album is a journey through the Deep South that pays tribute to Southern artists like Elvis Presley, Robert Johnson, Gram Parsons, Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/30/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: The Brook And The Bluff goes track by track on “Werewolf” (Dualtone). “A lot of our process revolved around getting together at 11 a.m. almost every day and playing together.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/30/m...

R.I.P. Austin legend Jon Dee Graham. Read our Q&A with him from 2023 by Hobart Rowland: magnetmagazine.com/2023/11/22/a...

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 Alicia Waller’s “My Day, Pt. II (If For The First Time)” (Frente, @aliciawallermusic.bsky.social). “I wanted to capture the moment of great belief in oneself. But also the doubt that inevitably follows.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/27/m...

The Basement Vapes, Vol. 22 (@davidbowiereal.bsky.social): MAGNET’s Mitch Myers recalls the sincerest form of ’70s flattery and says imitation David Bowies still can be heroes: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/26/t...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Dale Watson’s “She Was My Baby” (Forty Below). “I wrote this as an amalgamation of the women who make men lose their minds & common sense to where they don’t recognize themselves until it’s over & they can look back with more clarity”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/26/m...

Five Questions with Hotel Fiction (Astronaut Kids, Paid Vacation). “It’s really exciting to walk into a full room of people eager to hear our music. It doesn’t happen every night, but when it does, there’s no feeling like it.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/25/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Trever M. Keith’s “We Drank From A Poisoned Well.” “It appears to be a love letter to a distant, unresponsive partner. But it quietly reveals itself as something deeper and personal: a conflicted, lifelong letter to the U.S.”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Julez And The Rollerz’s “I Don’t Know You” (Lolipop). “It started as a song about looking back at my younger self and thinking, ‘Who is she?’ … I’m hoping my past self is still proud of the path I’m on now.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/24/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of KulfiGirls’ “Twist (Melted)” (@dcxpclive.bsky.social @kulfigirls.bsky.social). “We experienced a personal loss recently, which inspired this song. The full version will be on our next record. But you can hear it live at our shows”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/24/m...

MAGNET Classics Podcast: MAGNET’s Hobart Rowland teamed up with “How Did I Get Here?” podcast host Johnny Goudie for chat with Cashier, whose debut EP, “The Weight” (Julia’s Ware), is raising eyebrows with its grunge-inspired take on emo and shoegaze: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/24/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Michael Hampton’s “Into The Public Domain” mini documentary. A ‘founding father of power-funk electric guitar,’ Hampton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame with Parliament-Funkadelic almost 30 years ago. Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/23/m...

Essential New Music: Cortex & Hedvig Mollestad’s “Did We Really?” (Sauajazz). A summit that might seem unlikely to fans of each party. The outcome overlaps with their respective projects, but it has a character all its own. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/23/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...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Purrs’ “To Bed With A Smile” (Swoon, @thepurrs.bsky.social). “The power lines are a vehicle to allow life to transfer from one form of existence to another. It captures the band in their natural element: rock ’n’ roll & weirdness”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/20/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Sweet Undertow’s “Jessie Lee” (Mother West). “It’s even more fun to play. It’s like a kid on the swings … getting it just to the right height and speed where, when you jump off, it just shoots you like a stone from a slingshot”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/20/m...

Five Questions with Heavenly (@skepwax.bsky.social, @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social). “It’s been an interesting challenge writing Heavenly songs again. It feels important to have musical continuity, but equally, I can’t pretend not to be 30 years older.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/19/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Craig Wedren’s “Play Innocent (Live At Henson Studios)” (Tough Lover, @shuddertothinkers.bsky.social). “A triptych riot of memories clicking from teenage summer-camp trysts through East Village misadventures in my 20s.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/19/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of the Montvales’ “Path Of Totality” (@freedirtrecords.bsky.social). “Celebration of the kinship we’ve found w/ other freaks across the country—deviant, self-righteous sinners, hurtling down the crooked path to freedom together”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/19/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Devlin And The Harm’s “No Havana.” “I was watching my dad’s health deteriorating as political tides were rolling back to the 1950s. In his last days, he had to watch the world rejecting progress he worked toward throughout his life”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Disappearing Act’s “Hard Work.” “I overheard someone saying it was hard work pretending to care about what their partner was saying. Extraordinarily selfish and comically outrageous. Perfect fodder for a Disappearing Act song”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: John Power goes track by track on Cast’s “Yeah Yeah Yeah” (@scruffoftheneck.bsky.social). “I’m going to use the word ‘anthem’ a lot when describing the songs because there’s quite a few anthems on the album.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/17/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Eric Gabriel’s “Rent.” “Our van broke down two hours outside Omaha because the gas station cut the diesel with water. Then we got stranded because the van company hadn’t renewed its AAA.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/17/m...

Essential New Music: Hamid Drake & Pat Thomas’ “A Mountain Sees A Mountain” (Old Heaven Books). Game recognizes game: Pianist Pat Thomas and drummer Hamid Drake may have grown up on different continents, but they are kindred souls. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/16/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ghalia Volt’s “Ride” video (Ruf). “The song is pure positivity. A reminder to enjoy the journey & not just the destination … Things are heavy worldwide. So how about taking 3 minutes out of the day for a little levity?” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/16/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...

Five Questions with the Band Of Heathens. “Now, more than ever, the mission is clear: Use music to bring people together and celebrate what’s common and good between us.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/13/f...

Five Questions with Imarhan (City Slang). “Some of us have lost family members and friends in attacks on civilians. Perhaps you can feel some of that in some songs, but I think there is a bit of everything on this album.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/13/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of @themonochromeset.bsky.social’s “Lotus Bridge” (@tapeterecords.bsky.social). “At the center of this room is a hare with an abacus & piles of paper. He’s unable to predict the future due to constantly moving and changing stars”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of This Lonesome Paradise’s “Death Motels” (Bad Vibes Good Friends). “Without darkness, there is no light. And without love, there is no fear. So lean in and enjoy the unknown spaces in between.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Karen Dahlstrom’s “Love These Days.” “I’ve spent the last couple decades steeped in folk & Americana. But I’ve found myself recently thumbing through my fake book of jazz standards, revisiting classics of the Great American Songbook”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Hunter Morris / Mountain Of Youth’s “Automatic Days” (Strolling Bones). “It’s a reminder that you don’t have to settle for good enough, because someday you’ll be looking back and wondering ‘what if.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/11/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Chinese American Bear’s “Mama” (Moshi Moshi). “We’ve heard from so many fans that hearing me sing in Chinese has made them feel proud to speak it for the first time.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/11/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Beaming’s “Stuck (Here)” (Rose Garden). “An emo front-porch banger, it’s a song about the weight of dealing with unhealthy relationships and how hard it is to get out of your own way.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/10/m...

Essential New Music: Cleared’s “Lustres” (@room40.bsky.social, @stevenhess.bsky.social). Deep and weightless, “Lustres” is an artifact of sound breaking free of form only to reconstitute as new music. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/10/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Crooked Fingers go track by track on “Sweet Deth” (@mergerecords.bsky.social). “‘Hospital’ was 1st song I finished for ‘Swet Deth.’ I didn’t know I was going to have a heart attack. But this is how songs you’re writing try to communicate w/ you”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/09/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Gracie And Rachel’s “How Can I” and “Caroline” (@righteousbaberecs.bsky.social). “My relationships, my collaborations, my identity—all were being explored in new ways.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/09/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Disassociation’s “Take It All Away” video (Shrimper). “The song was written in one room by half the members. The other half recorded in the other room. We all came together to finish off the song.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/09/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Kiki Cavazos’ “Grey Ghost Train” (Jalopy). “When I listen to her music, it’s clear that pain and beauty are inexorably connected. Her songs aren’t influenced by any fad or era. It’s pure soul and hard, honest truth. And magic”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/09/m...