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.
Cloud Nothings, Final Summer
Though continuing to build off the blueprint of 2012’s Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi replaces some of that early release’s angst with a measured positivity on the group’s eighth album.
High on Fire, Cometh the Storm
After a relatively long wait, Matt Pike’s sludge-metal outfit returns with their most adventurous, pigeonhole-smashing, and idiosyncratic release to date.
Woo, Robot X + Xylophonics [Reissues]
Dabbling in odd, electronically treated acoustic instrumentation, the new-age-gone-wild sibling duo repackages material recorded in the ’80s and released last decade for a new label.
Adolf Alzuphar
These are the sort of arrangements that pride themselves on being so elegant that they practically demand an audience get dressed up to meet them.
Any art that pours out of social criticism is an attempt at reorganizing society, and all Joey Bada$$ wants is for his country to respect black lives.
There’s a kind of political beauty in the sight of an empowered woman and her band communicating passionately and honestly.
“Fin” confidently reinvents a music made for bumping and grooving with a lyrical prowess that burns slowly, confessionally.