MAGNET Magazine

40 years ago today, #CheapTrick released “Standing On The Edge.” Time’s not sleeping, and time won’t lose. Read our review of @cheaptrick’s essential 2017 album: magnetmagazine.com/2017/08/29/ess…

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #Swoll’s “The Wind At Night” (#Blight). “The lyrics were the very last lyrics I wrote for the album. A couple months later, the whole neighborhood burned down.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/23/mag…

Happy birthday #MartinGore (@depechemode). Have more than a party. Photo for MAGNET by #ChrisSikich (@countfeed). Read our Gore Q&A: magnetmagazine.com/2017/06/12/a-c…

Happy birthday @franhealy (#Travis). As you are. Listen to our #MAGNETClassicsPodcast on the making of @TravisBand’s “The Invisible Band”: magnetmagazine.com/2022/03/15/mag…

Happy birthday #RufusWainwright. Oh, what a world. Photo for MAGNET by #ChristianLantry. Read our classic @rufuswainwright Q&A: magnetmagazine.com/2007/05/14/qa-…

R.I.P. @OzzyOsbourne (@BlackSabbath). No rest for the wicked.

Happy birthday #SteveAlbini (@electricalWSOP, #Shellac, #BigBlack, #Rapeman, poker champ, jack of all trades). Dude incredible. Read our rock ’n’ roll fable on Albini and MAGNET guest editor @pansydivision’s Q&A with him: magnetmagazine.com/2024/05/09/ste… magnetmagazine.com/2016/11/04/fro…

#FiveQuestions with #GinaBirch (#Raincoats, #ThirdMan, @ginabirch12). “I’m happy that more young women now have access to making their own decisions and using their own voices to tell their own stories.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/22/fiv…

Happy birthday @george_clinton (#Parliament, #Funkadelic, #ParliamentFunkadelic). Dope dog. Photo for MAGNET by @wesorshoski. Read our #OverUnders on Parliament and Funkadelic: magnetmagazine.com/2010/07/20/the… magnetmagazine.com/2010/06/22/the…

Happy birthday @EricBazilian (@thehooters, @joan_osborne). Hope it’s not gonna be a nervous day as well.

Happy birthday @KimFowley (@TheRunaways). Born to be wild. Read #BrotherJT in MAGNET on #KimFowley’s “Lord Of Garbage”: magnetmagazine.com/2018/03/31/des…

30 years ago today, #ElliottSmith released his self-titled second album. Read our very first Elliott cover story, from 27 years ago: magnetmagazine.com/1998/09/08/ell…

#EssentialNewMusic: #CJoynes & #MikeGangloff’s “Tom Winter, Tom Spring” (@vhfrecords). “Gangloff and @CWKJoynes make good company, striding in matched steps from rustic folk tunes to free-form improvisation.” Read our review: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/21/ess…

Happy 70th birthday #HowieEpstein (#TomPettyAndTheHeartbreakers, @tompetty). R.I.P. One more day, one more night.

#MAGNETExclusive: Premiere of #OrigamiGhosts’ “Virtual Reality Boy” (@origamighosts). “I pieced together ideas about being in this virtual world and going back and forth between being all in and not wanting it at all.” Check it out: magnetmagazine.com/2025/07/21/mag…

Happy 55th birthday Michael “Fitz” Fitzpatrick (#FitzAndTheTantrums). Do what you want. Read our @FitzAndTantrums Q&A: magnetmagazine.com/2013/05/06/a-c…

55 years ago today, Funkadelic released “Free Your Mind... And Your Ass Will Follow” (@george_clinton). The kingdom of heaven is within. Read our #Funkadelic #OverUnder: magnetmagazine.com/2010/06/22/the…

Happy birthday @YusufCatStevens. Oh very young. Watch #ElliottSmith take on #CatStevens in MAGNET: magnetmagazine.com/2009/09/02/tak…

Happy birthday @chriscornell (@soundgarden, @Audioslave). You know his name. Chris on the cover of our sister mag @dbmagazine, and their complete interview with him, done two months before his death: decibelmagazine.com/2017/05/18/chr…

Happy birthday #StoneGossard (@PearlJam, #GreenRiver, #MotherLoveBone, @templeofthedog, @BradCorporation, @PaintedShield, @LoosegrooveR, @SGossard). Let the records play. Our #ClassicAlternative review of Green River’s “Dry As A Bone/Rehab Doll” reissue: magnetmagazine.com/2007/12/16/cla…