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About Me

The Magazines were formed in 2005. Tom and Leif assembled old friends, neighbors, acquaintances and lovers in a Pasadena rehearsal studio for the express purpose of making some beautiful noise. The end result is the Magazines, a stronger, faster, shinier, more fuel-efficient melody-making machine.The four members of the Magazines are more or less veterans of L.A.s music scene. Tom, formerly of Beachwood Sparks and Arlo, heads up the group with soaring lead vocals and searing guitar. Leif Bunting (Zen Cowboys, Holliston Stops) throws down his signature smoking bass grooves for you to shake your booty to, while Steve McClintic (Red Delicious,Big Violin, Vesuviasonic, The Last American Buffalo, Blue Whale Recording) plays the skins like hes making love to them. Lastly but not leastly, Sara Wallace (Starblind, Red Delicious) shakes the tambourine and adds her smoky voice to the sauce. Its kind of like a big, delicious musical barbecue. You almost want to lick your fingers; it's so sticky and good.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/05/2006
Band Website: www.themagazines.org
Band Members:Tom Sanford--lead vocal, guitar; Leif Bunting--bass; Sara Wallace--backing vocal, tambourine; Steve McClintic--drums.
Influences: All kinds of shit. Listen and see if you can guess!
Sounds Like: Falling in love (again); getting high in the desert; fighting with your best friend; sunset after a thunderstorm; a crowd of drunk, fist-pumping footballers; a road trip through fields of wildflowers; the Santa Anas wrenching down power lines. Oh, wait, that's what it feels like...
Record Label: diy

My Blog

RIP Magazines

Well, it was fun while it lasted. The Magz are on a hiatus, life is a bitch. We may come back to create more havoc in the future.... Thanks to all of you for all of the good times. It sure was Beauti...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Magz Update

Hello Magz fans,Leif here with a band update. We have been busy working our asses off with our day jobs and doing some traveling, so we don't have any May shows lined up. Y'all are going to have to wa...
Posted by on Wed, 07 May 2008 17:09:00 GMT

February Dragonfly show chicanery

Dear Magazines' Fans: There have been some issues with our upcoming Dragonfly show. We were told that we were playing on 2-27-2008 and all was well. Then just this week we were told that the date has ...
Posted by on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:43:00 GMT

Happy New Year to all of our fans and friends

December was a busy month for the Magazines. It was great to see everybody come out to the Dragonfly, even though it was a rainy Monday night. It is amazing what happens to traffice here in LA when wa...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:34:00 GMT

Tuesday Night @ Mr. T’s was like super fun

Thanks to Joey and the Janitors, THE Mama Suki & the Cobra Lillies for the good times. Up next is the Dragonfly on December the 17'th.
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:12:00 GMT