Magnet Magazine

Magnet is a music publication that primarily highlights alternative, independent, and non-mainstream bands.

National, Consumer

English

Magazine

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#686406

United States

#546932

Arts and Entertainment/Music

#8064

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

Essential New Music: Graden / Agnas / Landin / Bromander's "Words Were Coming Out Our Ears"

1 week ago | magnetmagazine.com | Bill Meyer

Titles are often clues to an artist’s intentions, but Words Were Coming Out Our Ears may be more of a motivation. The album’s name evokes an overloaded state, and who in 2025 doesn’t know the feeling of wanting to shrink from too much input? But the LP imparts a very different experience, one of perpetually monitored just-rightness. The instrumental lineup of piano, drums and two double basses is sufficiently unconventional to require care, lest sounds collide or congeal.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Dagger Polyester's "She Kissed The Gun" Video

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.
Essential New Music: Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch's "The Day The Angels Cried"

3 weeks ago | magnetmagazine.com | Bill Meyer

Trust a man whose ideal compositional form is the palindrome to reckon with this axiom: Everything comes back to where you started, then you start over again. 2023’s American Landscapes, the last record by Dutch lutenist/multi-instrumentalist Jozef Van Wissem and American guitarist/filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, ground their sound down to the essentials of pealing feedback and patiently cycling lute melodies, then let it sprawl, taking up all available space.
MAGNET Exclusive: Born Ruffians Go Track By Track On "Beauty's Pride"

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Eli Paperboy Reed's "Woman Woman Blues"

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Panel's "Solid Start"

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Field Trip Day's "Rhino"

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Robin Taylor Zander's "Nobody's Home" Video

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Mae Powell's "Tangerine"

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.
MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere Of Shunkan's "Arm's Length" Video

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.