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.
Chastity Belt, Live Laugh Love
The Seattle four-piece has never sounded so in-sync musically as they confront their past instincts to always go for the laugh.
Nico, The Marble Index + Desertshore [Reissues]
The newly remastered re-pressings of Nico’s solo work with John Cale make the crackling drone of these avant-folk recordings sparkle brighter than ever.
Fears, Affinity
Densely textured yet sparsely minimal, Irish songwriter Constance Keane’s second solo album is unrelenting in its intense emotions.
Nick Fulton
Juan Wauters recalls his immigration from Uruguay to Queens, which he commemorates on his recent LP “Introducing Juan Pablo.”
Despite cultural shifts in the eight years since their last album, their newest suggests the garage rock trio doesn’t need to change a bit.
He’s a perfume connoisseur on the side.
The husband-and-wife folk-rock duo detail the band’s new album, “Kinship,” and music’s role in the age of climate activism.
The D.C. band opened up about national identity, Thomas Frank, and Bowie’s Berlin trilogy.