Q&A with E.R. Fightmaster (Fightmaster Industries, Many Hats). “I love the process of taking this secret that feels so precious to me and handing it to an audience with my tail between my legs, just to watch them turn it into an anthem for their own life”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/03/a...

Q&A with Fruits Bats’ Eric D. Johnson (@mergerecords.bsky.social). “Creating things is like a personality disorder that’s morphed into a career path. I’ll keep doing it as long as people keep listening. Even if they stop listening, I’ll probably still keep going”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/03/a...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Bill Scorzari’s “Middle Class Middle Child” video (@billscorzari.bsky.social). “What started as an afterthought wound up being one of my favorite tracks on both albums.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Utopia PKWY’s “I Knew You Would Be Trouble” (Lux Astralis). “There’s a certain optimism in accepting uncertainty rather than trying to control it, and that’s the emotional engine driving.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/02/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jon Bryant’s “When You Call” (Nettwerk). “It is about getting calls from my best friends at 10 p.m., taunting me to meet up. We were like blood brothers on a winter’s night. And these nights would carry through to the morning”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/01/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Ed Prosek’s “The American Divide” (Nettwerk). “Through social media and mutual friends, I watched him become a junkie, hit rock bottom, then pull himself out of it. He built a whole new life for himself.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/01/m...

The Basement Vapes, Vol. 24: MAGNET’s Mitch Myers recalls his college record-store job, Laura Nyro’s “Gonna Take A Miracle” and the one who got away. Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/30/t...

Five Questions with Alex Amen (@atorecords.bsky.social). “I’ve always approached songwriting by pulling from personal experience, and so much of that stuff comes from where you live and what happens to you.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/30/f...

Q&A with Samantha Fish (@rounderrecords.bsky.social, @samanthafishmusic.bsky.social). “I try to find the craziest person in the room and connect with them. I do that carefully, because sometimes it can go totally south.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/29/a...

Essential New Music: أحمد [Ahmed]’s “Play Monk” (Otoroku, @cafeotodalston.bsky.social). As mind-blowing as ever, but on “Play Monk,” the band is easier to access than ever. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/29/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: Excerpt from “The Dead Milkmen” by Tyler Sonnichsen (J-Card Press). “By being ‘serious about not being serious,’ the @deadmilkmen.bsky.social were, ironically, to the left of so many urbane punk bands.” Read more: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/26/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Chase Elodia’s “Baggu Bag Baby.” “A stranger approached me and my friends outside a bar, pulled a cat out of her Baggu handbag and smoked the group out. Random moments of communion can leave one feeling more hopeful about the world”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/26/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of the Telescopes’ “Static Charge” (@tapeterecords.bsky.social). “Nobody is in the place where their story began. We are all immigrants. We are all refugees. Nothing is stationary. All is traveling.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Todd Adelman And The Woodsmen’s “Hot As The Hinges.” “A beautiful woman walked by, and my buddy’s 90-year-old mother-in-law turned to him and said, ‘That woman is hot as the hinges hanging on the gates of hell.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of David Wimbish & The Collection’s “Thank You For Leaving” (Nettwerk). “I wrote this in the wake of a friendship that suddenly exited my life, and I truly didn’t know how I was going to move forward with this giant new hole in my heart”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Antietam’s “Way Too Well” (@sugarblastmusic.bsky.social). “As I was making this record under the geopolitical equivalent of a tornado warning, I questioned if I even had the right—the privilege—to be creative.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/24/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Little Falls Trophy’s “Greenwich Village” (Rock Ridge). “It’s image versus reality: the version of ourselves we project and the one that’s actually holding everything together behind the scenes.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/24/m...

Q&A with of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes (@polyvinyl.bsky.social). “I was using songwriting as a form of therapy, laying it out in front of my mind so I couldn’t pretend it wasn’t happening … investigating my emotions.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/23/a...

MAGNET Exclusive: Futurebirds go track by track on “Far Out Country” (Dualtone). “Are you spending your present days trying to protect some imaginary future day that was dreamt up deep in your past? And what might be the cost of getting there even if you do?”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/23/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Pokey LaFarge’s “The Thing.” “People are always going to tell you what they think you should play, what you should sing about, how you should sound, how you should look, how you should act. I’ve always just been like, ‘Nah. Nope’”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/23/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Arcadian Wild’s “Spinnin’.” “We’ve had some incredible high points that made it feel worth it, only to come crashing back down again. But when you’re committed to something—really committed—that’s just what happens.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/23/m...

Five Questions with Diles Que No Me Maten (Moonlight Activities). “The album circles around changing structures and different landscapes. The lyrics are about adapting and embracing the drifting.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/22/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jim Nollman’s “The 47 Whale Raga” (Smithsonian Folkways). “Collaborating musically with other species is a bit like embracing the reality of fairy tales. Humans and animals really are the same as creators of song.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/22/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: lucky break goes track by track on “Made It!” (Fire). “I solidified the sound by blending everything I grew up listening to: Pavement, Liz Phair, Lucinda Williams, John Prine, Joni Mitchell.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/21/m...

Five Questions w/ Laibach (@muterecords.bsky.social). “Music has become continuous content, optimized for circulation rather than attention. At the same time, we consume more music than ever and can’t stop. That contradiction is central to ‘Musick.’” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/21/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 43-year run, with text by vocalist Jean Smith: www.magnetmagazine.com/category/dav...

Five Questions with John Gallagher Jr. “Acting is very much a gate-kept team sport for me. While I enjoy being a filter through which another writer’s words pass, writing and performing my own music allows me to converse directly with listeners as well as myself”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/19/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Sabrina Song goes track by track on “Big Trick” (Many Hats). “The EP delves into the vulnerability of ugly feelings, letting yourself change your mind and feeling the full spectrum of your emotions.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/19/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jon Caspi & The First Gun’s “My Shrinking Brain” video feat Peter Holsapple (@halfpear.bsky.social @jon-caspi.bsky.social). “I try to write about things that are difficult in life—to turn them from negatives into something positive”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/19/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of @chris-stamey.bsky.social’s “Modernism” (@flatironrecordings.bsky.social). “It was one of my fondest memories of being in the studio with Alex Chilton. He was so outside-the-box on that session and did such beautiful stuff”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Brian D’Addario goes track by track on the Lemon Twigs’ “Look For Your Mind!” (@capturedtracks.bsky.social). “We really wanted this album to have an exciting, guitar-driven pop sound closer to how we are onstage.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of Cento Threeo’s “Halfway To Mellowtown” (SecondBridge). “One of my goals was to challenge myself to write ‘jazz’ material that didn’t rely on the typical jazz-tune structure.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Kelly Doyle’s “Bats Are Cute” live video (Strolling Bones). “I made the exotica side of the song less campy and creepier by pairing it with Miles Davis ‘Bitches Brew’/‘Live-Evil’-era panning effects over the improvising.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Sun Within’s “Luminous Events” (Exotic Fever). “The song is a testament to the upward spiral of positivity that becomes possible when friends join together as creative forces in spite of all of the in-spite-ofs.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/17/m...

Five Questions w/ Kyle Morgan (Starcrossed Losers). “I was exhausted from trying to solve my own mental problems. I began to see that such self-concern was actually the thing perpetuating said problems. So I decided to give up and try out being who I actually am”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/17/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Very Old Morris’ “Ladies’ Darts Night” video. “It chronicles one of those hazy, chimerical nights spent simultaneously living and dying.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/17/m...

“LOUD: The Art Of Robert Pollard” temporarily dissolves the line dividing art show from live gig. By Matthew Cutter. Photos by Tim Bugbee (@tinnitusphoto.bsky.social): magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/c...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Wesley Stace’s “One Last Heist” (@pravdarecords.bandcamp.com). “There’s no reason why my songs shouldn’t swing like I want them to, despite all their words. Esther Phillips doing Gilbert O’Sullivan … Johnny Hammond doing Cat Stevens”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Brother Bird’s “Pariah” (Easy Does It). “It’s like the kid who isn’t welcome at the popular table, but then realizes the popular table actually totally sucks.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/m...

AGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Okay Lindon’s “Pinto Vs. Pinto” video (Lost In Ohio). “With 15 years apart and many miles between us, we built the idea of this reunion record around the goal of recording one song to completion once a month.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/16/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Elephant Stone’s “Fascists Killed Yer Rock ‘N’ Roll” (@littlecloudrecords.bsky.social, @elephantstonehq.bsky.social). “It’s about giving the threat a name. It’s a reminder that we’ve seen this script before ... and overcome it before”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/15/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help’s “Sweater Weather” (@barnonerecords.bsky.social). “The narrator of the song is perhaps a bit too trusting in his love for the machines that are taking care of him.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/15/m...

Essential New Music: Jeff Parker ETA IVtet’s “Happy Today” (@intlanthem.bsky.social, @nonesuch.com). There’s a web of connection between these four players that feeds a musical tap that seems inexhaustible. Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/14/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 Classics Podcast: We take a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine. For the latest MAGNET Classics episode, we get the real story behind @petedroge.bsky.social’s acclaimed 1994 debut, “Necktie Second”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of BendreTheGiant’s “Swollen Eyes” (Tender Loving Empire). “This is a record about loss, picking up the pieces in the aftermath and sticking around for another year to see what happens.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Shakey Graves goes track by track on “Fondness, Etc.” (Secret Identity, Dualtone). “This record is meant to be listened to as a whole, and these moments of reflection are intended as a much-needed breath. Why let talking ruin a good moment?”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/12/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jon22’s cover of Echo & The @bunnymen.com’s “Lips Like Sugar.” “We also do a killer version of ‘Suedehead’ and the Cars’ ‘Candy-O.’ These are songs I loved when I was growing up, and they were the reason I started playing guitar”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/11/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Jake Emissions’ “Lowdown, High Up” video (Mom’s Basement). “I was staying in Colorado, and I was thinking about how to start this record off and how much I love the twists and turns and crazy sights out there.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/06/11/m...