Magneta Lane

Insound asked me to submit a list of recommended albums for their newsletter this week. I called it “Brooklynvegan’s 10 Recent Albums You Should Own in Addition to Clap Your Hands, Sufjan, M…

Magneta Lane have a video for “The Constant Lover” Watch it: Quicktime Big | Quicktime Small Previously Magneta Lane CD released in the USA Magneta Lane @ CBGB (CMJ) | Pics

Thunderbirds are Now! just announced a whole bunch of August tour dates including August 26th at Bowery Ballroom in NYC with labelmate Les Savy Fav (and one of Oh My Rockness’ favorite new bands, Rahim)…

“We soon hopped in the van and navigated our way through the congested streets of Brooklyn, over the Williamsburg Bridge, and eventually into the posh Manhattan quarters that house New York’s famous Knitting Factory, where we were to perform on the smallest of the venue’s three floors, the Old Office…

PopMatters recently published reviews of two bands I’ve been following… Thunderbirds Are Now! | Justamustache “There is a certain joy to be derived from the sheer energy alone of Justamustache. Like chowing down on your favorite sugar-coated cereal on Saturday morning and watching a constant stream of poorly dubbed Japanese cartoons, this thing bounces off […]

Magneta Lane‘s The Constant Lover EP has been out in Canada for almost a year. Today it finally got a U.S. release. Their first full length will be out some time in the fall, and we’ll get a proper U.S. tour around then. In the meantime Canadians can catch them on tour with Sloan. Buy […]

Watch or Listen to Stars perform on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Watch or Listen to Bloc Party on Morning Becomes Eclectic. Magneta Lane at Myspace (make sure to check out the B-side to their limited 7″, “Cheap Linguistics”) Fannypack at Myspace (not the first time I posted this link, not the last time you’re going to […]

The fight for CBGB continues. Tiny Mix Tapes reported today… “The birthplace of the Ramones, Blondie, Television, and Sick of It All has, perhaps surprisingly, fans and friends in high places…

Magneta Lane have released an exclusive 7″, limited to only 250 copies. It also happens to be the first and only U.S. release from the Canadian band…

O Canada, how do you produce so many great bands? Maybe it’s the cleaner air, the relatively liberal culture, the cold, the hockey, or the feeling that you’re really better than your southern neighbor who gets all the attention Magneta Lane can be filed under “corking pop”, albeit with a bit o’ punk– mostly manifested in their incredible efficiency and high tempos– thrown in for good measure…