Martin Courtney Magic Sign 1/29/13 Smooth strutting

Smooth strutting

New Magic II 7

Horses has since been viewed by critics as one of the greatest and most influential albums in the history of the American punk rock movement

fully-fledged solo album of beautiful material complete with full band (wherever deemed necessary)

fronted with meta-punk attitude and draped in strings of keyboard theory

Martin Courtney Magic Sign 1/29/13 Smooth struttingWhen Martin Courtney was a teenager, he knew how to get lost. In the late '90s and early 2000s, there's Martin, loaded into a car with friends. They're navigating the suburban sprawl of New Jersey with no destination in mind. He and his friends would "get thoroughly confused and look for familiar green signs with arrows pointing to towns wed heard of. We'd call them 'magic signs,'" he says. That's the thing about magic: when you go looking for it, you