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.
Gatecreeper, Dark Superstition
On their third full-length, the Arizona death-metal group sharpen their songwriting while honing in further on a more pronounced melodic side.
Draag, Actually, the quiet is nice
Following last year’s release of their debut album, the LA band continue to push forward their dreamy grungegaze romps on a six-song EP.
A. G. Cook, Britpop
Marking the end of the PC Music era, the three-disc album is a mystifying project that goes beyond Cook’s evolving aesthetic as it traverses the past, present, and future.
Margaret Farrell
Cosentino’s new record will arrive July 28 via Concord Records as her band takes an indefinite hiatus.
Lead single “Bogus Operandi” arrives ahead of the new LP The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which is out August 11.
The track comes with the announcement of Claud’s sophomore album Supermodels, arriving July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.
Sugar the Bruise is out June 16 via Fat Possum.
Ahead of their debut for Matador Records, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos talk Everyone’s Crushed, changing routines, and newfound exposure—well, actually mostly just 311.
Two groups making Chicago proud.
The Become EP, a collection of five outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions, will also be widely available on vinyl on May 19.
So Many Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.
Their newly announced Din EP is out June 30 via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.
“Hinoki Wood” is the opening track from the follow-up to 2020’s Mia Gargaret, arriving May 26.
The follow-up to 2020’s Lowkey Superstar is out May 26 via drink sum wtr.
I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth album, is out July 7 via Partisan.
Hear the first two singles from More Photographs (A Continuum), which is out May 26 via Dead Oceans.
The collaboration marks Thundercat’s first new music in three years.
The solo debut comes in the wake of Fontaines’ 2022 album Skinty Fia.
The London-based trio’s self-titled debut album is out May 12 via Third Man Records.
Alicia Bognanno’s new LP Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
“Claire’s a good friend since she brought me on her tour around the release of her first album.”
MICHAEL, the rapper’s first solo album in over a decade, is out June 16.
The band’s eleventh studio album—and their first following the passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins—is out June 2.