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MAGNET Exclusive: Los Straitjackets Go Track By Track On "Somos Los Straitjackets" - Magnet Magazine
After 30-odd years, you’d think Los Straitjackets would be over their identity crisis. But as it turns out, they’ve known who they are all along. It’s the rest of us who need to get past the whole novelty thing. Mexican wrestling masks or no, few bands convey instrumental rock’s purist ethos with more passion, substance and style than this enduring Nashville outfit, with influences that range from Dick Dale and Link Wray to Booker T. & The MG’s and the Cramps.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Night Teacher's "Everything I've Had" - Magnet Magazine
Personal evolution is a hot topic among a talented and diverse crop of female singer/songwriters these days, and Lilly Bechtel is no exception. The title of her second Night Teacher LP, Year Of The Snake (First City Artists), references the transformative nature of 2025 in the Chinese zodiac. Scoff if you will, but there’s nothing New Age-y or contrived about the album’s gorgeous new single, “Everything I’ve Had,” its unabashed sincerity like a blast of fresh air from an open car window.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Sammy Brue's "Lord, I'm Ready Now" - Magnet Magazine
The Journals is tribute album in the most authentic sense. On it, Sammy Brue pays homage to Justin Townes Earle by fleshing out or totally re-imagining the late singer/songwriter’s unfinished work. “Lord, I’m Ready Now” is the first single from the LP, available January 23 via Bloodshot. That same month sees the release of What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, an authorized biography of Earle by Jonathan Bernstein.
Essential New Music: Thomas Ankersmit's "The Dip" - Magnet Magazine
Modular synthesizers aren’t just instruments. They can be a way of life, with practitioners getting deeper into the circuits, erecting walls of patch bays and cords, and transforming them anew each time they plug another module into the rack. Thomas Ankersmit plays a Serge, which was originally devised in the early 1970s by CalArts professor Serge Tcherepnin. It’s the way to go if you want to make music out of imagination and electricity.
Guided By Voices Released "Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow" 20 Years Ago Today - Magnet Magazine
20 years ago today, Guided By Voices released Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow. To the fire tonight! See how many Suitcase 2 tracks made our list of the 500 best Guided By Voices-related songs of all time:
MAGNET Exclusive: Rachael Yamagata Goes Track By Track On "Starlit Alchemy" - Magnet Magazine
Rachael Yamagata has had nine years to process the torrent of sorrow and uncertainty she funneled into Starlit Alchemy (Jullian). On her first album since 2016’s Tightrope Walker, the seasoned singer/songwriter comes to us a changed woman—at times, a woman still in the throes of transformation, her distinctive voice leading the way. Now 17 years removed from the major-label dance and managing her own affairs from her home base in New York’s Hudson Valley, Yamagata is reveling in both her independence and her roots.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Joel Cusumano's "Death-Wax Girl" - Magnet Magazine
Joel Cusumano’s “Death-Wax Girl” is a classic breakup tune with a dark psychological twist. “I experienced an incredibly hurtful and traumatic breakup—one that left me feeling completely betrayed and questioning my own sanity,” says Cusumano, who’s been a reliable presence around San Francisco Bay Area underground scene as a key member of Sob Stories, R.E. Seraphin and Body Double. “The song is my attempt to work out whether I’d been deceived by my ex or by myself—by my fatal trust in someone who wasn’t what they appeared to be.”