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.
Cloud Nothings, Final Summer
Though continuing to build off the blueprint of 2012’s Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi replaces some of that early release’s angst with a measured positivity on the group’s eighth album.
High on Fire, Cometh the Storm
After a relatively long wait, Matt Pike’s sludge-metal outfit returns with their most adventurous, pigeonhole-smashing, and idiosyncratic release to date.
Woo, Robot X + Xylophonics [Reissues]
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.
Joshua Mellin
Shots of Nick Cave, black midi, Bikini Kill, Sigrid, and more from Helsinki, Finland.
Olivia Rodrigo, IDLES, Jack White, HAIM, St. Vincent, and more from the iconic UK festival.
Highlights from the week-long Rhode Island fest, featuring Black Pumas, Waxahatchee, Yola, Julien Baker, and many more.
The Aussie singer rocked the legendary location inspo for Stephen King’s “The Shining.”
The band rolled into the Windy City for a foggy Father’s Day celebration.
The glam singer-songwriter took the stage in a sparkling sequin catsuit.
The seventeen-year-old singer easily sold out the spacious 18k-capacity arena.
Jack White and The Raconteurs played their first show in eight years.
On this leg of the “Tell Me How You Really Feel” tour, it was straight to the Land of the Rising Sun for the Aussie rocker.
In 1966, The Beatles weren’t greeted with the usual pandemonium in Tokyo—and since that time McCartney hasn’t exactly had a smooth relationship with the Japanese authorities himself. But Paul, ever the professional, has never been one to hold a grudge.
Settling into Northern Spain for a week, The xx shined a light on the city’s music, film, and arts scene with a series of shows and parties.