With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
Dehd, Poetry
The Chicago indie-pop trio continue to evolve their sound as well as their message, with the songs on their fifth album taking the form of anthems of acceptance.
Arab Strap, I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
The Scottish duo gives our global village a fitting pre-apocalyptic soundtrack on their eighth album as they balance misanthropic lyrics with breezy, danceable synth-rock.
Jessica Pratt, Here in the Pitch
The LA-based indie-folk songwriter’s ghostly yet elegant fourth album is all smoke and light work—like the best noirs of the ’40s and ’50s if they were filmed in the druggy late-’60s.
A.D. Amorosi
The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.
Knee deep in sweeping melancholia and clipped pop songs, the iconic synthpop duo’s latest LP is their most full-blooded effort in over a decade.
The Scary Monsters to 2021’s Young Americans–esque Daddy’s Home, Annie Clark’s seventh album is bleak and noisily unamiable yet somehow surprisingly accessible when listened to in its entirety.
Almost 30 years into their existence, the post-punk revivalists let listeners know that their youthful fire hasn’t dimmed on their fourth, most tightly wound album.
40 releases to keep your eyes peeled for as you descend upon your local record shops this Saturday.
Dabbling in odd, electronically treated acoustic instrumentation, the new-age-gone-wild sibling duo repackages material recorded in the ’80s and released last decade for a new label.
The Houston instrumental trio’s back-to-basics fourth album is a delectably nuanced and subdued listen touched up with open-air production and field recordings.
The blues-rock duo finds the perfect balance of roominess and friction on their 12th record thanks to key collaborations with Beck and producer Dan the Automator.
The composer and multi-instrumentalist discusses his work on the new historical fiction series and his background in American history, in addition to diving into a bit of Dessner family folklore.
On their fifth LP, the psych-R&B trio continue to move into the realm of Lite-Brite pixelation while maintaining a passion for the Latin continuum’s funky traditionalism and Mexicali rock and roll.
His latest mini-album sees Ishmael Butler further distance himself from conventional hip-hop as he and his collaborators explore elements of noise, glitch, shoegaze, and computer jazz.
The ever-mutable pop star’s turn toward country is a tireless, fearless epic of quirkily and wisely told Black history mixed with elements of the artist’s Texan origin story.
The newly remastered re-pressings of Nico’s solo work with John Cale make the crackling drone of these avant-folk recordings sparkle brighter than ever.
The drummer-composer’s 1960 rebirth LP remains one of the finest expressions of what it means to confront racial injustice in jazz or any other genre.
In the midst of Devo’s 50th anniversary tour, their frontman discusses his new art book documenting his eye-centric paintings and Beat-inspired stream-of-consciousness writing.
After experimenting with primal psychedelia and Prince-esque pop-funk on 2019’s This Land, the Austin blues songwriter’s fourth album is wondrously diverse in all the right places.
The pop-country superstar leans into her homespun folk roots with mournful grace and the tiniest teardrop of tenderness, though the result is oddly lofty and often trite.
The soundtrack to the avant-garde jazz composer’s HBO series is guided by spirits divine and self-determined whose overall effect is shapeless, cluttered, and serene.
The latest installment from the experimental ensemble’s live series revisits a May 1973 set at Paris’ L’Olympia where the band stretched out with noisy jam-like elasticity and hypnotic density.
Adding to their signature angled rhythm, Brooklyn’s jagged-alt supergroup explores spaciousness and dedication to melody on their sixth release.