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.
Babehoven, Water’s Here in You
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert’s second LP of lush indie-folk is warm and inviting as ever, though the album’s impressionistic storytelling tends to keep the listener at arm’s length.
Maria Chiara Argirò, Closer
The London-based art-pop composer shifts into more polished electronic club music territory on her third solo LP as we hear her wrestle with a sense of connection.
METZ, Up on Gravity Hill
The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the band METZ.
Breanna Murphy
And then if Paul Simon totally lost it.
Season two will debut this fall, with season three coming spring 2016.
And it’s just about everything radical from the original.
3…2…1…Go! [Rocket Start]
“The Panic Office” is in installation at Semi-Permanent in Sydney, Australia, from May 24–June 6.
For his last record, 2011 highlight Kaputt, Dan Bejar took Destroyer into new-wave sheen and sax solo heaven. Since then, he…
The Los Angeles duo cavort around Coney Island, reminisce the days of youth in Super 8.
The meow mix is real.
Plus: El-P Instagrams the first bit of Run the Jewels 3, Killer Mike to appear on Real Time tonight
The “Pan’s Labyrinth” writer-director’s latest stars Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, Jessica Chastain, and Charlie Hunnam.
The visionary piece is directed by production duo Leblanc + Cudmore.
Spot the Noah.
Jason Chung makes music for the dark, specifically, the infinite and impermanent moment just around mid-night.
“What Else Is in the Teaches of Peaches?” with photographs by Holger Talinski is out June 2; new record RUB to be released later this year.
The Dutch singer has also made an EP of unreleased material available for free.
An impressive triumph that carries such an enormous weight of gorgeous sounds, layers, and textures, “Rituals” soars absolutely, without boundaries or burdens.
The 3-LP rock opera, in five acts, will be released July 28.
Weekend’s Shaun Durkan and producer Jorge Elbrecht join for “Cranekiss,” out August 28 via Mexican Summer.
“The video takes cues from the lyrics of the song which are a meditation on innocence and coming of age. That very precarious time in life when sex is elusive, maybe even frightening but always compelling.”
Canadian trio Seoul make music designed to soundtrack the spaces in between—the darkest part of night, before light begins to permeate; the stretch…