MAGNET Magazine

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...

Five Questions with Barry Adamson (@muterecords.bsky.social). “I think the storytelling nature of Nick Cave’s lyrics pushed me into seeing that there was possibly a cinematic attachment to them.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/20/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Trembler goes track by track on “Total Sorry” (Rite Field). “An examination of social and self-obliteration, cosmic connection and admitting defeat.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/20/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Satya’s “Yellow House.” “The song pays homage to both the warmth and the damage of growing up—and allowing yourself to look at it in an honest way.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/19/m...

Five Questions with Plantoid (@bellaunion.bsky.social). “We were listening to King Crimson’s ‘Discipline’ around the time we were writing the album, and we used @yesofficial.bsky.social’s infamous ‘Owner Of A Lonely Heart’ as a bit of a pump song to get us going”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/19/f...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Deslondes’ “Lawdy Mama” video (New West). “Back when the band used to tour without GPS or cell phones, I put it on a mix CD, and it stayed in one of our many, many binders for years.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Nic Panken’s “Dear Companion” (Useful Objects). “I shared an early sketch of an idea with my co-producer. He grabbed a pair of scissors, directing me to cut out each line, shuffle them all up and piece together something new”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/18/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of @nickflessa.bsky.social’s “The Terror, The Traitor And The Tastemaker” (@anxietyblanket.bsky.social). “They are three players in the spiritual warfare. Fear and trembling, betrayal and the commodification of good taste—all shattered”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/17/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of the Sh-Booms’ “This Is A Test” (Limited Fanfare). “It’s a sci-fi vision of two astronauts on a collision course in the cosmic ocean. As they delve into the great unknown, they enter euphoric intergalactic love.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/17/m...

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of Odd Marshall’s “Run.” “We’re a generation that’s been wronged. The life we’ve been promised isn’t available to us. It’s time to take down those motherfuckers who raised us on lies.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/16/m...

Essential New Music: Tomeka Reid Quartet’s “Dance! Skip! Hop!” (@ooyhrecords.bsky.social). Reid, @maryhalvorson.bsky.social, Tomas Fujiwara & @roebke.bsky.social put their skills at the service of the music, which wouldn’t be the same if any of them weren’t there: magnetmagazine.com/2026/02/16/e...