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.
St. Vincent, All Born Screaming
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.
Babehoven, Water’s Here in You
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert’s second LP of lush indie-folk is warm and inviting as ever, though the album’s impressionistic storytelling tends to keep the listener at arm’s length.
Maria Chiara Argirò, Closer
The London-based art-pop composer shifts into more polished electronic club music territory on her third solo LP as we hear her wrestle with a sense of connection.
Jesse Locke
After a banner year for non-fiction feature films and TV series with music as their focus, here are 10 titles we found especially illuminating.
Mark Stewart sets the scene for the recently released dub reimagining of the record helmed by its original producer, Dennis Bovell.
The radio host, voice actor, writer, and director’s new book “It Never Ends” is out now.
Colin Newman and Bruce Gilbert discuss their new Record Store Day double 10-inch collecting the band’s overlooked early 2000s recordings.
Eaddy and theOGM trace the lineage of conservative fear-mongering in music to the present day, which sees the release of the punk-rap duo’s politically charged “BLURR” mixtape.
We revisit the late electronic music pioneer’s legacy via early LPs and recently unearthed recordings.