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.
Margaret Farrell
The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.
Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.
Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.
The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.
Returning for the first time since its 2018 debut, the event will take place September 15 and 16 at Cincinnati’s ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park.
Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.
Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.
Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.
In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.
It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”
It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.
Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.
The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.
The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.
The 14-track collection comes from his three sold-out hometown shows at the Philadelphia venue in 2022.
Following the passing of drummer Dee Pop, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley recorded drums and produced They Live in My Mind.
The free outdoor concert series, curated this year by L’Rain, takes place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from June 7 through August 24.