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: The Lowest Pair goes track by track on “Always As Young As We’ll Ever Be” (Delicata). “I try to be more patient as I’m getting older. Trying to learn to be comfortable in the unknowing will likely forever be part of my practice in this lifetime”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Charming Disaster’s “New Moon” video (@charmingdisaster.bsky.social). “It’s dreamy incantation, a meditation on urban insomnia and a ritual immersion in the natural world.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Lapêche goes track by track on “Autotelic” (@tinyengines.bsky.social). “The songs favor restraint, repetition and space, inviting listeners to remain inside the motion rather than search for answers.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/05/m...

Five Questions with Tyler Ramsey & Carl Broemel (@carlbroemel.bsky.social @mymorningjacket.bsky.social). “We both studied the guitar seriously, but in very different ways. It’s like we’re not two ends of the same magnet. We’re a positive and negative”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/04/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Beatrice Deer’s “The Bear” (Uummati). “It’s a story of survival during the famine of the early 1900s. We Inuit are alive today because of the sacrifices and selfless acts our ancestors did during those dark times.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/04/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: T. Gold goes track by track on “Life Is A Wonder And It’s Cruel” (Sleepy Cat). “I tried to take a break from my usual songwriting milieu—ceaseless questioning, cynicism, exasperation—to express how grateful I am for my life as is, trials and all”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/03/m...

Essential New Music: Daniel O’Sullivan & Richard Youngs’ “Persian Carpets” (@vhfrecords.bsky.social @nofansrecords.bsky.social). Seeing as we live in a time when merely checking the news can demolish your mood, music this comforting is a gift. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/02/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Dwight + Nicole’s “Day Or Night” (WestWalk). “The song is about being of service to someone else, even if that means just offering a bit of reassurance. We all need some of that in these times.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/02/m...

11th Street freeze-out! Braving the bitter-cold streets of Philadelphia and a big-ass moon, Wild Pink brought its slanted-and-enchanted brand of Amerindiecana to Milkboy. Perfect for those of us stumbling onto the heart of Saturday night.

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: Full-Album Premiere of Ailbhe Reddy’s “Kiss Big” (Don Giovanni). “I drew influence from Julia Jacklin, @arcadefire.com, Mitski and the novel ‘Fleishman Is In Trouble.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/30/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: James Hunter goes track by track on “Off The Fence” (Easy Eye Sound). “The result of someone’s suggestion I write something in the style of Jimmy Reed. It’s more verbose than Jimmy’s style, but his heartfelt simplicity isn’t easy to emulate”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/30/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Sky Chiefs’ “Engines”. “The wheeze of the organ reeds and the warmth of the gut strings combine to create a sound that could’ve come out of a Wild West carnival scene.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/30/m...

Five Questions with Annabelle Chairlegs (Todo). “Working with Ty Segall was fucking sick. He gets it. He’s so talented and locked in. I just had a feeling it would be a really great experience—and it truly was.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/29/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Palm Ghosts’ “God Help The Poor Billionaires.” “The super-rich petition the poor for the one thing they themselves lack: empathy. That leads those below the poverty line to fervently defend policies that only benefit the wealthy”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/29/m...

Five Questions with Ken “Bundy K.” Brown (Pullman, Tortoise) (@westernvinyl.bsky.social). “The Pullman LP and the projects that got released in 2025 under Tim Barnes’ name are a testament to music’s transformative power in the face of something like Alzheimer’s”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/28/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Endearments’ “Summersun” (Trash Casual, @endearments.bsky.social). “There’s something about taking the train or walking by the water to clear your head that feels very much a part of living in New York City.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/27/m...

Modern Nature at Milkboy. “The Heat Warps” (@bellaunion.bsky.social, @modernnature.bsky.social) is a solid and enjoyable listen that provides calm in a time of chaos. Photos by Eric Ring: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/25/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: Muriel Grossmann goes track by track on “Plays The Music Of McCoy Tyner And Grateful Dead.” “I approached both their music the same way I approach my own music, because it was the only way I could serve the music the best I could.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/23/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Builders & The Butchers’ “Blood:Death” (@buildersbutchers.bsky.social). “‘D-I-V-O-R-C-E’ by Tammy Wynette & ‘Murder At The Bingo Hall’ by Amigo The Devil are my faves. I love singing along & spelling the words to something dark”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/22/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Daphne Parker Powell’s “Scorched Earth & The Flood” (Pleasure Loves Company, @daphneparkerpowell.bsky.social). “We walk through the heart, each chamber like a room where we pin up our butterflies even when they cease to flutter”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/22/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-album premiere of Arms Around The World’s self-titled debut (Shy Sounds). “I wanted to capture the ambivalence of our relentless need to be verified by some outside force, whether it’s the people we love or the systems we’re all caught in”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/21/m...

Lucinda Williams at Lucinda’s, New York City. Photos by Wes Orshoski.

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ken Park’s “Sleep Paralysis” (Todo). “The mind wakes before the body. You’re aware of your own vulnerability but powerless to act.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/20/m...

Essential New Music: THC Trio’s “THC Trio” (Personal Archives). They play a brand of free improvisation that’s close enough to rock in places that they’ll have a good chance of seducing the unsuspecting, sending them on a wayward path. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/19/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 Juliana Hatfield (American Laundromat). “I’m really good at generating my own distractions from within. It’s not like I don’t have a TV. Or a wandering mind.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/16/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Mylo Bybee’s “I Wish You Well” (Gold Ship). “I wrote this sitting in my living room, staring across the water toward the Russian peninsula, watching beluga whales pass by and capturing a mental image of what I wanted to last forever”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/15/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-album premiere of David Huckfelt’s “I Was Born, But…” (Don Giovanni). “They’re meant to be played, shared and banged into around a campfire some night—not hung up on a wall somewhere in your home office.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/15/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of Trainwreck Boyfriend’s self-titled debut (@trainwreckbf.bsky.social). “We set out to make a record that feels complete. We don’t just want listeners to hear our music; we want them to feel something that hits hard and sticks”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/15/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Nikki & The Phantom Callers’ “Nobody Told You” video. “I love the visual mood and the black-and-white minimalism of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona,’ and I felt the themes of the movie and the song were very similar.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/14/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Wormy’s “I Hate You.” “I wrote it about my friend Nick (aka Medium Build) when his career took off. There was no one in the world who deserved success more. But I also wanted to be in his shoes. I hated him—but I loved him so much”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/13/m...

Essential New Music: Zea & Drumband Hallelujah Makkum’s “In Lichem Fol Beloften” (Makkum). In addition to being the Ex’s mouthpiece for more than a decade, @arnolddeboer.bsky.social has been the singer, guitarist, songwriter, etc, of Zea for 31 years. Our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/12/e...

R.I.P Bob Weir (Grateful Dead). Photo for MAGNET by Wes Orshoski. Read our Q&A with Bob: magnetmagazine.com/2016/12/14/a...

10 years ago today, David Bowie died. We think he blew our minds. Read our classic @davidbowiereal.bsky.social feature: magnetmagazine.com/2002/07/13/d...

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 Classics Podcast: Listeners around the world love showed their love for these deep dives into the albums we can’t get enough of: Matthew Sweet’s “Girlfriend,” @officialold97s.bsky.social’s “Too Far To Care,” Belly’s “Star” and Blake Babies’ “Sunburn”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/09/t...

Five Questions w/ Synth History’s Danz CM (@synthhistory.bsky.social, @danz-cm.bsky.social). “In the ’70s, synths began to be taken seriously. You had composers working w/ tight budgets turning to them because they could give you the feeling of a whole orchestra”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/09/f...

Q&A w/ @joshbloom.bsky.social, author of “The Apples In Stereo” (J-Card Press). “I’m not sure rock historians or fans of rock history understand the Apples were first band to release music on @elephant6.bsky.social, a label they were also responsible for running”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/08/a...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Beggar Weeds’ @michaelstipe.bsky.social(@remhq.bsky.social)-produced “Seer” (Strolling Bones). “We picked up a free Christian fanzine at a buffet and were intrigued by a story of the kids in Yugoslavia who saw the Virgin Mary”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/08/m...

Essential New Music: James McKain / Damon Smith / Weasel Walter’s “…Seeing The Way The Mole Tunnels….”. “Constant flux, shifting from triple-decker slamming to sandstorm diffusion w/ an irrefutable logic that massages the mind at the same time it punches the gut”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/07/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Memorials’ “Cut Glass Hammer” (Fire, @memorialsmusic.bsky.social, @wirehq.bsky.social). “It was a challenge to turn this into a pop song that works as something immediate and catchy despite the unconventional heart that drives it”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Parlor Greens’ “Eat Your Greens” (@coleminerecords.bsky.social). “Eat your greens, and feed your soul. It’s all slathered in a spicy sauce as only Parlor Greens can cook.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/01/05/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...

Happy New Year from MAGNET and Guided By Voices! Photo for MAGNET by Gene Smirnov (@smirnovphoto.bsky.social). “For year to year eternities/They wave goodbye/To careless gestures gone away/To what begins on New Year’s Day” Brand-new Q&A with Robert Pollard: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/19/b...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ultrabomb’s “Artificial Stars” (DC-Jam). “Sitting in our bunkers, we only have artificial stars to look at. We’re all scarred, but we keep reaching for those stars.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/30/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Winged Wheel’s “I See Poseurs Every Day” (@12xurecs.bsky.social). “The working title was ‘Truck Stop’ because of how dirty and gruff the riff was.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/12/29/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...