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‘Lay My Money’ (feat. Electronicat) single & video by Jim Sikora out now
I, James Marlon Magas, have a new single and video out today: ‘Lay My Money’ with noise/pop idol Electronicat. This down ‘n’ dirty video was helmed by legendary Chicago director Jim Sikora. Blast the song on the streaming forum of your choice. If vinyl is your preference, the album Confusion Is My Name will be… Read more
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JAMES MARLON MAGAS Releases New Single & Video Directed by KANSAS BOWLING
James Marlon Magas has released ‘Feathers In the Clouds’, the 2nd single from his forthcoming album Confusion Is My Name. This is a propulsive, Oberheim-driven, passionately-voiced electronic rock banger, enlivened by an incendiary piano solo by ex-Blues Control shredder Lea Cho. Mastered by Ruud Lekx and cut for vinyl by Josh Bonati. The ‘Feathers’ video… Read more
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JAMES MARLON MAGAS Announces New Album / Releases First Single & Video
James Marlon Magas has been reborn — or perhaps, more accurately, born for the first time in his most undiluted image. Confusion Is My Name is his first album under his full given name, and the first album in over a decade to position him as a proper frontman at the microphone against the backdrop… Read more
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New James Marlon Magas Album Ready For Fall 2022
Greetings friends, I’m excited to announce that the recording and mixing of my solo debut album under my full name, James Marlon Magas, is complete. It is now in production. The world of vinyl production has been a bit unpredictable in recent times but I’ve managed to secure a production schedule. Planning on an October… Read more
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Episode #233 of The Poundcast with Dougg Pound, Brent Weinbach & James Marlon Magas
I’m interviewed on one of my favorite podcasts, The Poundcast, with Dougg Pound and Brent Weinbach. We talk about noise, transcendental meditation and the TRUE concept of social distancing. In After Dark, I talk to the guys about my equipment (synthesizers and stuff) and tell a tale of a man doing something to himself at… Read more
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New Career-spanning Interview in Glassworks’ Spillin’ the Beans
Hello, Friends! I’ve reactivated my website for 2021. I was recently gave a career-spanning interview with Glassworks’ Coffee in their Spillin’ the Beans Column. I talk about my early experiences in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (the U.P., as it’s known), through my experiences with my old bands, all the way up to present-day, where I talk… Read more
