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.
Christian Koons
There’s no word yet on which “Catastrophist” track will become the Windy City’s official anthem, but it really is only a matter of time.
But this isn’t a concert taping, or even a “live” record, in any traditional sense of the term, even though the songs are perplexingly labelled as such.
Listen to the new remix now.
The New York band’s sophomore record is out February 5.
No word yet on how much “whizzpopping” will be featured in the film.
A video of the event, which took place in March, has been posted.
The bill includes Gary Numan, GZA, Oneohtrix Point Never, Julia Holter, ODESZA, and more.
“A bar stool intellectual…a master’s degree in small talk…”
We continue our countdown of the year’s best music with our #4 record of 2015.
The sequel to the 2000 original is out in February on Netflix and IMAX.
The new project documents the lives of Archy and his younger brother Jack.
The New York band’s second album is out in February.
Warning: this post contains “GOT” season five spoilers!
“Had a little funky psychosis”
A physical release is expected early 2016.
“Meow the Drums” is available to download now.
The Brooklyn indie pop act also details their upcoming new record, out February 19
The new album is set to drop on February 19.
“Shadow of a Doubt” is out November 20
An early beta version of the game is expected next year.