MAGNET Magazine

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #MaRainey’s “Oh Papa Blues” (#BlackSwan, #GeorgeHBuckJazzFoundation, @harmonicaboy). This previously unreleased alternate take is one of 118 tracks on “Mother Of The Blues: The Complete Paramount Recordings, 1923-1928”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/28/mag…

#EssentialNewMusic: #AmbroseAkinmusire & #MaryHalvorson’s “Slo-Mo Neon Luminate Hoverings” (@NonesuchRecords, @amBROSEire). “Freewheeling duets that make public a playing partnership that’s developed mostly in private over the past decade and a half”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/27/ess…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #Reverends’ “Sunshine Girl” (@littlecloudrec1, @mythmakerpr). “I told everyone in the band to play the filthiest, most fucking fuzz-drenched, ’90s-sounding shit they could.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/27/mag…

Every week, MAGNET posts a new illustration by @LesterMecca of @MeccaNormal with text by vocalist #JeanSmith: magnetmagazine.com/category/david…

Q&A with @peteyorn. “‘All The Beauty’ has more than just a literal meaning. Sometimes it’s a question of looking within, as that can be an ominous thing. Good things happen, bad things happen, some things don’t make any sense. That’s part of the beauty”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/24/a-c…

#FiveQuestions with @illpeach__ (#Handwritten). “Sometimes you can be in a vacuum of your own creativity and not really know what you sound like. All we know is the music feels good to us.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/24/fiv…

#MAGNETExclusive:: Premiere of #FeralFoster’s “New World Blues” (@harmonicaboy). “A recording is a coordinate in musical spacetime, a familiar fleck along your timeline, something you can’t get back to again.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/23/mag…

#FiveQuestions with #AttaBoy (#DiamondCity, @manyhatsendvrs). “Even in shitty times, we can grow and evolve and find community, while still acknowledging and respecting that things do feel bad right now.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/22/fiv…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #ZacSchulzeGang’s “Hellhounds On My Trail” video (@RufRecords @deviouspdv). “Live, the song live takes on many different forms. We’ve found ourselves improvising sections & adding new ones. It sums up how we sound as a band”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/22/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #KyleKimbrell’s “Helmet Head” (@CorneliusChapel). “My whole life, I’ve had a pretty big head. My uncle used to tease me about it, and that’s how the ‘Helmet Head’ nickname was born. It stuck with me more than I realized”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/21/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #MatthewSquires & #SunkCoast’s “What’s Going On” (@TeamClermont). “The title borrows from #MarvinGaye, but where his is a plea for understanding, mine is an exclamation of bewilderment and disorientation.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/20/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of @DallasBurrow’s “Modern Day Vagabond” (@40belowrecords @deviouspdv). “I’ve spent much of my life traveling around the world in search of freedom and adventures. Nowadays, the difference is I have something to come home to”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/20/mag…

Every week, MAGNET posts a new illustration by @LesterMecca of @MeccaNormal with text by vocalist #JeanSmith: magnetmagazine.com/category/david…

Q&A with #MelanieRadford (@Built_2_Spill, #BloodLemon, @JealousButcher). “Making this record was a very spiritual experience for me. It left a mark in how I live as a contemplative person.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/17/a-c…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #CinderWell’s “Of Nettles And Roses” video (@HenHouseStudios). “There’s both a sharpness and delicate beauty in the unknown. This song is a brief poem to that sentiment, with a melody that feels cathartic to me.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/17/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #AnnaMay’s “Crying At Erewhon” (@blackbirdrecs). “I wanted it to reflect the recordings of #theMamasAndThePapas, #theCarpenters and @TheBeachBoys. But I decided it would feel too dated, and I wanted it to sound brand new”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/17/mag…

#FiveQuestions w/ #Knitting’s #MischaDempsey (@mintrecords). “Coming out as nonbinary as an adult connected me to a childhood version of myself that had the privilege of slipping between gender norms without an awareness of what I was doing”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/16/fiv…

MAGNET Exclusive: Premiere of #GordonWithers’ cover of @americfootball’s “Never Meant” (@trisloth). “It’s beautiful, but also complex in its interlocking layers, odd time signatures and how it repeatedly phrases sections in measures of 10 instead of 8”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/16/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #RileyDowning’s “Hurt To Fall” (@ohboyrecords @thedeslondes @IVPRnashville). “Everything is working out in ways you didn’t expect. You’re leaning into it, having built yourself up strong enough to handle it—or so you thought”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/16/mag…

#MAGNETExclusive: #IzzyOramBrown goes track by track on “What I Want.” “I spent my time journaling, walking, listening to baseball on the radio, reading and thinking—all in service of writing new material”: magnetmagazine.com/2026/07/15/mag…