Customer Rating: 
Summary: I like Magnet
Comment: Magnet is the best music magazine I know of that's published in the U.S. (I know that's not saying much but it really is good). Good articles and reviews on great bands. I especially liked the last issues "Top 60 albums of the past 10 years" list. Sure there were a few missteps (Tortoise,The Verve, and Calexico to name a few) but that's forgivable when you have Belle and Sebastian, Radiohead, and Neutral Milk Hotel all in the top 5.P.S. don't get it from amazon, it's cheaper if you subscribe with the form inside the magazine plus you get a free cd.
Customer Rating: 
Summary: don't go much past indie rock
Comment: I appreciate the fact that Magnet is a mostly indie/college music type magazine, but let's be honest here about their out look on music in general, it is pretty bad. They write good articles and the content is usually good, but to have a top 60 albums of the past 10 years and to have bands like Polvo and Girls Against Boys in it shows really bad taste. From what I can see they don't really understand rap or electronic and they don't really try to. If you like one kind of music, indie rock, and you plan to stick with it and listen to nothing else than Magnet is your magazine. If you plan on expanding your musical tastes past one genre than forget Magnet and read the British music magazines. They're a lot more expensive, but magazines like Mojo put this one to shame.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Quirky
Comment: Magnet is a quirky magazine. One month will include an informative interview about a band/artist that would not even receive a mention in a more mainstream magazine, the next month the feature articles can be stale or superficial.
The predictably helpful section of the magazine is its album reviews. A little more elaborate than CMJ, the reviews describe the music and musicians instead of stopping at just comparing new releases to music already out there.
A good magazine to buy off the rack, but not consistantly good enough to subscribe to.
Most of the sample discs are not that great. In my opinion, stick to brittish mags if you want pretty consistantly good music with your reading material.
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