MAGNET Magazine

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...

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 Lost Leaders Featuring Amy Helm’s “Atalanta.” “The melody and words painted an interior emotional landscape … The task of finding the lead character’s voice through my own lens changed the way I performed the song.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-EP premiere of Camino Sound’s “Remembers Everything” (@furiousball.bsky.social). “A looser and more open-ended set of songs compared to our usual, more structured fare … The day we recorded these tunes, it felt like everything landed nicely”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Yum Yum Tree’s “My Corner” (Somerset Sound). “It’s about being on someone’s side—even when they’re unable to be on their own side … It’s not easy to do in a world where we write people off when they mess up.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/06/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Spencer Thomas’ “Video Farm” video (Strolling Bones). “After reading about @therandynewman.bsky.social’s career, I understood how he used satire to shine a light on injustice, so I wanted to try that.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/05/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Mic Harrison And The High Score’s “Scrap Iron Man” video. “He did pretty much anything to make money: scrap iron, firewood, moonshine and probably a little meth. He was the kind of person your parents told you to stay away from”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/05/m...

Five Questions with Ski Team (Only One On The Mountain). “I learned a lot from Hemingway: Just state what’s happening, and let the beauty come from that, rather than trying to be beautiful in the words.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/04/f...

Five Questions with Large. “In punk, there’s a pressure for songs to be about something. In recent years, I’ve learned to focus on writing lyrics that sound good & feel resonant & let an understandable meaning emerge organically, if at all.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/04/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Bosh Rothman’s “Joshua” (Broken Sticks). “It’s a personal letter to myself. It’s me letting out my frustrations with loneliness and feeling used and taken advantage of by people who came in and out of my life.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/03/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of 37 Houses’ “Helium.” “It’s a song about giving up and accepting the things you’re not willing to change. It’s filtered through all the angst three maxed-out fuzz pedals can deliver.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/03/m...

Q&A w/ Bill Frisell (@bluenoterecords.bsky.social). “It gets so dark these days. If everybody played a guitar, this wouldn’t be happening. You have to listen. You find harmony with each other. Empathy, compassion, loving each other—all that stuff happens in music”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/03/02/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 the Setting’s “By The Light Of The Moon” video (@eivindopsvik.bsky.social). “Has a touch of ‘Dark Side Of The Moon,’ but it sounds quite different. I’ve been a Pink Floyd fan since childhood, so I named it ‘By The Light Of The Moon’”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/27/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-album premiere of Will Dailey’s “Boys Talking” (@willdailey.bsky.social). “It’s been theorized on social media that when @davidbowie and @prince abandoned the physical plane, a rift opened in our reality.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/27/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Kimon Kirk’s “Dashboard Hula Girl” (feat Robbie Fulks) video. “Anyone who’s been abandoned by his family & gone on a suicidal car journey with a dancing decorative ornament will certainly find much to enjoy in this song.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/27/m...

Q&A with Vega Vault Project’s Liz Lamere. “As @henryrollins21361.bsky.social said, ‘Alan Vega is forever.’ As @brucespringsteen.net said, ‘There was simply no one else remotely like him.’ Alan’s influence has been steady for 50 years—with no end in sight”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/26/a...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of Bill Pritchard’s “Haunted” (@tapeterecords.bsky.social). “‘The music sounds like you played it on Stevie Wonder’s Dream Machine,’ said the engineer when we opened the tracks I’d started at home. I see what he means now”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/26/m...

Five Questions w/ Ratboys (New West, @ratboysband.bsky.social). “A huge part of it is our willingness to work side jobs outside music & to be scrappy in the band to keep it going. Each of us puts in a ton of work hours outside actually playing music.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/25/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Full-LP premiere of Clayton Chaney’s “Too Far” (Rock Ridge). “I figured I could release the album by the end of 2023, but it turns out having a child takes up a lot of time.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Okonski’s “Easy” (@coleminerecords.bsky.social). “Much more soul focused than meditative listening, it’s a refreshingly focused take on a very drum-forward track.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/25/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Mavis Guitar’s “First Pitch Strikes” (@sweetcheetahpr.bsky.social). “We’re building with all of us in mind. The end goal is to bliss out for a bit. Hopefully this grabs your attention.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/24/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Todd Albright’s “If That Woman’s Love Was Whiskey” (Misfortune). “It was written by #PaulGeremia sometime in the 1990s. I saw him play it many times. It’s one of those songs that I didn’t so much learn as absorb.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/24/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Pretty Flowers’ “To Be So Cool” (Forge Again, @theprettyflowers.bsky.social). “It’s a blast to play live. The lyrics just seemed to kind of flow, and I didn’t try and overthink writing them at the time.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/23/m...

Essential New Music: John Butcher’s “Away, I Was” (Relative Pitch). “This might be the very best way to introduce a listener to John Butcher, solo saxophonist. It represents him both in the studio and in concert, acoustic and amplified.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/23/e...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Sluice’s “Zillow” (Mtn Laurel). “I was working on a crew, scribing baseboard for a multimillion-dollar house that was almost certainly going to be devoured by the Eno River in the next 25 years.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/23/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...