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.
METZ, Up on Gravity Hill
The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the band METZ.
Drahla, Angeltape
Their sophomore album sees the Leeds-based trio overcoming grief over instrumental flourishes that recall yesteryear while artfully resisting the lure of entering a time machine.
Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come
Shane Lavers captures the awe and unease of humanity’s impermanence on his debut album of dissociative dream pop.
Jack Riedy
The author talks “A Little Devil in America,” the “multitudinous multiverse of Black performance,” and finding inspiration from binging “Soul Train.”
The Chicago trio reveal two singles and a video as the first installment of a three-EP series.
The British songwriter recounts a chance meeting at a Marfa Dairy Queen and other inspirations for her sophomore album.
Chi-Town’s indie arts scene bred Deville, whose first proper album “Maintain” is out today on No Trend Records.