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.
Full of Hell, Coagulated Bliss
The shapeshifting grindcore collective continue to find new brutal horizons to explore on their expansive yet focused first non-collaborative LP in three years.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
The Lemon Twigs, A Dream Is All We Know
The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.
Adam Pollock
Thirty-three years after its formation, Dinosaur Jr. continues to make sublime, rousing rock and roll.
As Wild Beasts release their fifth long-player, “Boy King,” we find them facing (rock band) middle age and most likely questioning their relevance.
Burroughs on the mic, King Khan on the boards.
Natasha Khan’s new album was created as a kind of soundtrack to a short film she screened this year at Tribeca.
Car Seat Headrest’s first wide release of brand-new material showcases most of the weapons in Will Toledo’s arsenal.
“Stiff” makes a grand leap into polished retro-rock territory.
At the pace Philly’s eclectic Santigold releases albums (read: slowly), it’s not hard to welcome each LP as more than just a new release for the artist.
A raucous blast of energy to help combat the winter doldrums.
After repeated listens to Harriet, the fact that they are from Los Angeles comes of absolutely no surprise.
Iceland sounds like an easy sell: who wouldn’t like an exotic arctic country inhabited by tall blond socialists? Yet when it…
Oh, to be that simplistic and silly again!
Very well produced and expertly performed, Pray for Rain does its best to entertain without offending—or leaving much of a lasting impression.
Dripping with sex, swagger, and a buzz factor they might have to invent a new scale for, the new Dead Weather album arrives—after almost a year of teaser singles—with a bit of a thud.
We’re glad he’s having fun, but next time he needs to put some power behind it.
Appropriation is nothing new under the creative sun (just ask Sam Smith or Robin Thicke), but the fact that Painted Palms wear their influences on their sleeve in such obvious fashion on their sophomore album is a little disappointing.
A for effort, but we already have “Rio.”
Four decades after the advent of punk, chief rotter John Lydon rejoices in PiL’s post-punk creation.
Blasting out of St. Joseph, Missouri, comes a power trio of young, homeschooled brothers who just delivered one solid debut rock album.
Twelve years later, though, it’s impossible to consider the stellar album without acknowledging its place in the artist’s short and turbulent career.
“Magnifique,” their new opus, is a fourteen-track tour de force that will stand as one of their best.