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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks 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.
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3 weeks ago | 
magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland
Like most artistic types, Field Trip Day’s Alexa Lynn Fecca has had a few run-ins with assholes. “Rhino” addresses that hot-button topic with indie-pop aplomb and a killer chorus. “It’s about the experience of being bullied and the emotional complexity that comes with it,” says the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter. “It explores the ongoing power struggle with someone you both fear and, in a twisted way, revere.”Field Trip Day made a first appearance this past fall with its self-titled debut EP.
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3 weeks ago | 
magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland
The name is bound to ring a bell with music fans. But for Robin Taylor Zander, it can’t be easy ditching the shadow of a Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer—especially when you’re sharing the stage with the guy on tour. But the Cheap Trick frontman’s 30-year-old son appears to have handle on it. “Musically, I’ve always been influenced by Cheap Trick,” says the younger Robin Zander, who’s played with the Trick for more than a decade.
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3 weeks ago | 
magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland
Bay Area singer/songwriter Mae Powell has always been an advocate for living with your heart on your sleeve. “I wrote ‘Tangerine’ as a testament to my own squishy heart—this idea of a tender heart being akin to a fruit getting smushed in the bottom of a bag, making a mess but also making everything smell really good,” she says.
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1 month ago | 
magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland
Shunkan’s new single was a lockdown baby. “I think I was in denial about everything going on,” says bandleader Marina Sakimoto, reflecting on the state of mind that begat “Arm’s Length” in 2020. “My feelings of isolation and introvertedness had been steadily growing for a few years at that point. But against those odds, I still craved intimacy and friendship.”Much of Shunkan’s upcoming release gets its hard-earned mojo from that pivotal period in Sakimoto’s life.
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1 month ago | 
magnetmagazine.com | Hobart Rowland
Wild Blessing’s Wizard Of Oz recently came across the word “glossolalia” and fell in love with its phonetics, if not its meaning. Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians have been known to engage in glossolalia during worship, uttering unintelligible, language-like sounds, often with variations in rhythm and intonation. The Bible calls it speaking in tongues.
