Articles

  • 2 days ago | magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland

    If there was ever a co-headliner that measures up (so to speak) to Hedwig And The Angry Inch, it’s Dagger Polyester. The Los Angeles-based artist’s brazenly theatric fusion of punk, glam and art rock has landed them on stages with Yves Tumor, Weyes Blood and the Lemon Twigs. Polyester even snatched up the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson to produce their debut LP, Perversion For Profit, due August 1 on Broken Arrow.

  • 2 days ago | mainlinetoday.com | Gina Lizzo |Hobart Rowland |Ben Silver |Marilyn Odesser-Torpey

    Shallow and family-friendly, the Brandywine is easily navigable by canoe, kayak or inner tube—and so long as you put in and take out on public property and have transportation, you don’t need a guide. West Chester’s Northbrook Canoe Co. has been on the creek for more than 45 years and offers a variety of floating experiences ranging from an hour to more than two. All come out of the water at Northbrook’s camp. 1810 Beagle Road, West Chester,(610) 793-2279.

  • 2 days ago | magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland

    True to the untamed Canadian ethos, Born Ruffians chafe at categorization. Over the past dozen or so years, they’ve ramped up, polished and generally tampered with their hooky indie-rock sound, reaching a sublime sort of classic-rock-inspired peak with 2020/21’s three-album, beverage-inspired Juice, Squeeze and Pulp.

  • 3 days ago | magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland

    Though he’s often defined by his affinity for NOLA funk and Chicago blues, Eli Paperboy Reed is an East Coast commodity, born and raised in Brookline, Mass. His 2005 debut was recorded 15 minutes away in a basement studio in Boston’s Allston neighborhood. It was tracked live to analog tape in mono and pressed in a limited run of 300 CDs, which Reed sold mostly while busking in Cambridge.

  • 3 days ago | magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland

    Annie Sparrows has done quite a bit of band hopping since her lead role with the hard-touring Soviettes, part of an impressive early-2000s lineup of punk-flavored bands on the Fat Wreck Chords label. Sparrows has since performed and recorded with Twin Cities acts Awesome Snakes, God Damn Doo Wop Band, Green/Blue and, most recently, Bermuda Squares.