Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine, plus brand-new releases from marquee MAGNET artists. Each podcast episode features music from the LP and exclusive in-depth interviews with the artists, producers and other key players. For the latest MAGNET Classics episode, Rowland gets the real story behind 1996’s Mic City Sons, the great last gasp from Elliott Smith’s former band, Heatmiser.

Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine, plus brand-new releases from marquee MAGNET artists. Each podcast episode features music from the LP and exclusive, in-depth interviews with the artists, producers and other key players. For the latest MAGNET Classics episode, Rowland gets the real story behind Freedy Johnston’s 1992 proto-Americana masterpiece, Can You Fly.

Longtime contributor Hobart Rowland takes a deep dive into the influential albums championed by the magazine, plus brand-new releases from marquee MAGNET artists. Each podcast episode features music from the LP and exclusive, in-depth interviews with the artists, producers and other key players. For the latest “Instant” Classics episode, Rowland gets the real story behind the making of Mortal Primetime, the latest arena-sized installment in the enthralling evolution of Sunflower Bean.