All a great country song needs are "three chords and the truth," the songwriter Harlan Howard famously once said. But to hear Magnolia Electric Co.'s electric Rust Belt hymns Monday night was to understand the trope's country-rock application: same alchemy, really, just a little more misery and noise.
Morose yet cathartic, Magnolia Electric Co.'s songs trace [...]

Magnolia Electric Co.: "Josephine"
You'd think that Jason Molina, lead songwriter of Magnolia Electric Co., would be pretty close to writing the perfect break-up song by now. After all, he's had roughly 14 records (between Songs:Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., and solo, not including live albums) worth of them to work out his approach. But he's pretty [...]