welcome!

Thanks for coming over, hanging out…you know. Stop eating all the Cheetos, though.

Great Magnet is a “Hard Pop” band hailing from the suburban wastelands of Southern Sonoma County, known for it’s wine, weed, and no-so-much for it’s song. Unless you like coffee shop Janis Joplin clones and dudes with shiny gray ponytails and berets singing about how bad they’s got the blues and stuff. But we’re about to change all that. We’re about an hour north of San Francisco and a full frontal assault on the unsuspecting urban shoegazing masses is inevitable. Lock up your household pets and stock the pantry.

The project, in title at least, is an offshoot of Adam’s commercial recording studio endeavor, Great Magnet Recording. It was there that he wrote, recorded, and mixed the damn thing, first in it’s older Petaluma, CA location and then finalized in his new Santa Rosa facility.

Adam’s longtime friend and über-bassist Nathan Alfaro  lays down an unapologetically ferocious low end while heavy-hitter Jeff Piehl’s diverse skillz on the skins bring it all together and wrap it up in an ugly black leather bow.

As the band slouches into the second third of 2010 and begins live touring for the first time ever, we bid farewell to Nathan’s son Connor Alfaro who has been making us all smiles with his textural palette of rhythmic riffage. He’s moving somewhere way cooler than here, and probably forfeiting old guys with guts in exchange for hot chicks with loose morals. God speed young man.

Enter the amazing Mr. Jason Reed, formerly of Dream Machine, who is already raising the musical bar in ways that we could not have fathomed. All signs point towards an exuberant future of rocking-the-fuck-out and spreading the gospel to all who are willing to listen. Come one, come all…