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.
Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.
Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible
The breathless riffs, ferocious pace, and veteran sense of security that define this debut album from the metalcore supergroup feel like the work of a band desperate to escape their history.
Kevin Ayers, All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973
Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.
A.D. Amorosi
The drummer-composer’s 1960 rebirth LP remains one of the finest expressions of what it means to confront racial injustice in jazz or any other genre.
In the midst of Devo’s 50th anniversary tour, their frontman discusses his new art book documenting his eye-centric paintings and Beat-inspired stream-of-consciousness writing.
After experimenting with primal psychedelia and Prince-esque pop-funk on 2019’s This Land, the Austin blues songwriter’s fourth album is wondrously diverse in all the right places.
The pop-country superstar leans into her homespun folk roots with mournful grace and the tiniest teardrop of tenderness.
The soundtrack to the avant-garde jazz composer’s HBO series is guided by spirits divine and self-determined whose overall effect is shapeless, cluttered, and serene.
The latest installment from the experimental ensemble’s live series revisits a May 1973 set at Paris’ L’Olympia where the band stretched out with noisy jam-like elasticity and hypnotic density.
Adding to their signature angled rhythm, Brooklyn’s jagged-alt supergroup explores spaciousness and dedication to melody on their sixth release.
The indie-rock icon’s first solo album in nearly 20 years applies her early material’s magical-realist melancholy to real-life grief with unexpected directness.
In celebrating 10 years of funky compositional invention and soulful emotion, Stephen Lee Bruner offers an extended look at his first major-chord masterpiece.
The songwriter and co-founder of the Black Country Music Association talks building community, compiling her debut album, Beyoncé’s country turn, and more.
Leaning into mellower vibes and a sound far less overproduced than their recent material, the electro-funk duo’s mature, sultry sixth LP comes off as a bit of a surprise.
The Oscar-winning filmmaker discusses his new animated investigation into the life of disappeared Brazilian jazz musician Francisco Tenório Júnior, co-directed by Javier Mariscal.
The former Against Me! vocalist returns to the business of blisteringly blunt and spare rock music with elements of her COVID-era folk efforts captured in what often feels like a rough haste.
On his eighth album, Roberto Carlos Lange reaches deeper within the self while tying the project further to electronic music as he manipulates it to suit the emotional lyrical output.
The alt-R&B innovator discusses his way with sensual, emotional songwriting ahead of the release of his third LP.
Documenting a pair of 1985 London shows, this long-bootlegged double-LP offers an early look at the playfulness and boundary-testing the no wave icons would soon perfect on EVOL.
Celebrating 50 years with a bonus rough mix of the LP, McCartney’s third album with his post-Beatles band captures a man looking to outpace his immediate past while borrowing from its glories.
Released posthumously with the production assistance of Tricky, the producer-toaster’s final statement is a collection of seamless collaborations and chic synthwave.
With her 2001 disco single going viral after soundtracking the bold finale to Saltburn, the songwriter explains how this newfound attention precedes a return to a love of dance music.
Backed with liner notes from Tim Kinsella, this career-spanning comp unites the project’s three studio albums of ragingly ornamented and searingly rarified post-punk with previously unissued tracks.