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.
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.
Dua Lipa, Radical Optimism
The pop star’s soaring vocals are overshadowed by scattershot and overengineered production on her third album, as her team of songwriters’ styles clash more often than they mesh.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
Mike LeSuer
The Nashville-based folk experimentalist announces his new album Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly will arrive September 6 via Missing Piece Records.
The free events will take place in the days leading up to the album’s May 17 release.
The songwriter delivers the highly conceptual set of songs ahead of his sophomore album Steven, out this week via Father/Daughter.
Arriving with an intimate music video, the track also comes paired with an expanded set of fall tour dates reaching the UK and Ireland.
The Nashville indie-punks also share an early stream of the release, which officially drops tomorrow.
Paying homage to her late aunt, the new single precedes an album of the same name set to arrive later this year via Future Gods and the artist’s own Silver Lab(s).
The collaborative new track from Butch Vig’s band features members of Silversun Pickups and Eagles of Death Metal, as well as vocals from Bradley Hanan Carter.
The Philadelphia-based dream-pop group shares another new single ahead of their second album Double Your Relaxation, which arrives May 17 via Tiny Engines.
Recorded as a trio with drummer Luke Titus and bassist Pera Krstajic at LA’s Moroccan Lounge, the full LP drops May 10 via Stones Throw.
It’s the second single from the Spokane-based shredder’s sophomore album, As It Was, As We Were.
Linnea Siggelkow shares how her sophomore record documents her search for a sense of home.
Officially dropping tomorrow, it marks the debut release from the Chicago-based duo comprised of members of Yautja, Coliseum, and Immortal Bird.
Inspired by Bill Withers and The Beatles, the Austin-based songwriter’s new track is the latest taste of his Easy Eye Sound debut Flying Away.
The LA-based songwriter shares a loose single ahead of a handful of live dates in Texas and California, including Big Sur’s Hypnic Festival.
Josh Shaw’s new album Basketball Camp will arrive June 14 via The Record Machine.
Leaning into their lyrical strength of expressing life as we know it as a visceral horror story, the sludge-rockers’ fourth album is equally notable for its unexpected instrumental flourishes.
Landing ahead of their upcoming tour with Airiel and Blushing, the rework leans into the ambient direction of the Montreal dream-pop duo’s latest LP.
Melkbelly vocalist Miranda Winters shares 17 tracks that helped shape her debut solo album, which arrives this week via Exploding in Sound.
Tilted Planet, the debut project from Warehouse’s Genesis Edenfield and Ben Jackson, will be out May 17 via Danger Collective.
It’s the first track from the Alabama-based songwriter’s newly announced EP, as well as her first single released through new label Winspear.