STEPHEN MALKMUS Being the former leader of Pavement means you never have to cut your hair or bare your soul - at least not in any literal fashion. FRANK BLACK His Pixies once colonized the twin planets of punk and pop, but Black's sixth solo album finds our intrepid hero mining the classic rock found here on Earth. MONSTER MAGNET You can take the devil out of this New Jersey band - but why would you want to? A weekend with Dave Wyndorf's psych/metal deities reveals a band whose intentions are ben...   [ read more ]

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For some reason or other Universal seems to really be reaching to pour out one of these 20th Century Masters editions for every artist they have on their many label's rosters, and this is a case in point. 1990s acid power quartet Monster Magnet (who presaged Sleep by a few years) issued four albums (and some EPs) for the Universal-distributed A&M Records after buying their deal from Caroline. This collection hastily slaps together a sampling, including two tracks each from 1993's {^Sup...   [ read more ]

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The longtime mustachioed leader of Monster Magnet, Dave Wyndorf, is pretty darn lucky to be alive, as he nearly succumbed to a drug overdose in early 2006. But he's made a full recovery, and has returned to the driver's seat for the group's seventh full-length overall, 2007's 4-Way Diablo. While known primarily as a molar-rattling biker metal band to many, ol' Wyndorf has never covered up his admiration of garage rock and psychedelia -- but kicking off a Monster Magnet album with a ...   [ read more ]

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