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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Dan Epstein
The bass player passed away yesterday at the age of 72.
Brian and Michael D’Addario on their new record and the sonic secrets at the heart of their ’70s obsession.
Here are ten musicians who owe an insurmountable debt to the late King (and Queen) of rock ’n’ roll.
We caught up with the band’s frontman Bobby Hecksher to get the latest on their ninth album and new video.
A previously unpublished interview with the post-punk guitar legend.
With Craft Recordings reissuing their first two LPs, the band’s drummer takes us behind the scenes of their inception.
From “Disco Noël” to “This Ain’t No White Christmas,” here are ten wonderfully weird albums to get you in the holiday spirit.
From Janelle Monáe to Deafheaven, some notable career-defining first releases.
“Whatever happens, it’s going to sound cool!”
Listing the swan songs of those who are gone but certainly not forgotten.
Mikael Åkerfeldt on the Swedish prog metal group’s bilingual, “super-epic” new album.
A tribute to Nicky Wonder, cofounder of the Wondermints and guitarist for Brian Wilson, who died this week at age fifty-nine.
Drummer/vocalist Brann Dailor on the Led Zeppelin classic they recorded for their late manager, who passed away last year.
Named for Coyne’s 2015 art instillation of the same name, “King’s Mouth” features twelve interconnected songs with narration from The Clash’s Mick Jones.
Our FLOOD 9 cover conversation between ex–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette political cartoonist and an irreverent rock duo.
Out of place and underappreciated in 1968, “The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society” has finally reached the status it deserves in the highest tier of rock——and Dave Davies sincerely appreciates that, late as it may be.
Inside the world of the Lollapalooza poster artists.
The trio are careful about what they do in the studio, but once they hit the stage all bets are off.