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.
Les Savy Fav, OUI, LSF
The Brooklyn dance-punk group ends over a decade of inactivity with an album that simply feels like five friends reveling in the opportunity to get back in the same room together to rock out.
Dehd, Poetry
The Chicago indie-pop trio continue to evolve their sound as well as their message, with the songs on their fifth album taking the form of anthems of acceptance.
Arab Strap, I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
The Scottish duo gives our global village a fitting pre-apocalyptic soundtrack on their eighth album as they balance misanthropic lyrics with breezy, danceable synth-rock.
Michael Duncan
On the Vancouver punks’ dynamic fourth album, growth is the name of the game.
Often built out of only one or two phrases, each of “Primitive”‘s tracks has something hypnotic at its core, reinforcing the adage that there is beauty in simplicity.
Guitarist/vocalist Hutch Harris’s wonderfully nasal tone and the band’s pessimistic Portland attitude models a perfect outlet for frantic frustrations and life’s bigger questions.
It kind of makes you forget what G.O.O.D. music actually sounds like.
“Synesthetica” lacks the overall drive, exploration, and charm that would make it radiant.