Magnet Magazine

With Tolerance (Fightmaster Industries/Many Hats), E.R. Fightmaster delivers the most personal music of their career, peeling away some pretty thick skin to examine the recurring patterns that shape love, friendship and identity. Produced with a wide circle of collaborators and informed by a fresh hands-on approach to recording, the official “Fightmaster”debut alleviates the ...

Whether his preference is pastoral folk, cosmic Americana or shimmering indie pop, Eric D. Johnson has always been less interested in chasing trends than documenting the emotional terrain of everyday life. More often than not, that means a Fruits Bats song will evolve at its own patient pace before revealing something quietly profound. That approach […]

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Happy birthday Poly Styrene (X-Ray Spex). Good time girl. Read Cold Specks in MAGNET on Poly:

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25 years ago today, the White Stripes released White Blood Cells. It bears repeating now. Read our review of Jack White’s essential 2018 LP:

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Happy birthday Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Hard Quartet, Zwan, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy). Plus, Adele, Andrew WK, Johnny Cash, Cat Power, Neil Diamond, Dixie Chicks, Guided By Voices, Stephen Malkmus, Run The Jewels—to name just a few. Chavez photo for MAGNET by Bob Berg. (That’s Matt on the left.) Read our Chavez feature:

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