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.
Les Savy Fav, OUI, LSF
The Brooklyn dance-punk group ends over a decade of inactivity with an album that simply feels like five friends reveling in the opportunity to get back in the same room together to rock out.
Dehd, Poetry
The Chicago indie-pop trio continue to evolve their sound as well as their message, with the songs on their fifth album taking the form of anthems of acceptance.
Arab Strap, I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
The Scottish duo gives our global village a fitting pre-apocalyptic soundtrack on their eighth album as they balance misanthropic lyrics with breezy, danceable synth-rock.
Daniel Harmon
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Hot dogs, flags, and fireworks lose some of their appeal in light of the nativist hysteria gripping America at the moment, but this list will help you think America’s kind of great again.
“Game of Thrones” is striving admirably to carry its abundance of characters, territories, and plotlines. But it doesn’t have to.
First, a bit of context: I’m confident that I could watch eighty-six minutes of Lonely Island digital shorts and feel…
Pop cultural deaths that occurred back before death was cool.
Pop culture recommendations to aid with your blockbuster fatigue.
Pop culture recommendations to aid with your justified sense of inadequacy.
Two of our editors discuss their use (and abuse) of the online encyclopedia using the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: G-chat.
Pop culture recommendations to aid in coping with the Donald.
The “Green Room” director is slashing his way to the top.
Even a slaughterhouse has its rules. But is that enough?
Jeff Nichols’ latest film gamely shifts across genres without signaling.
The multi-hyphenate star of “Silicon Valley” joins us ahead of the show’s April 24 season premiere to discuss birthdays, podcasts, Donald Trump, and ketchup.
The winner of the Director’s Award at last year’s Sundance burns slowly—and brightly.
The New York–based writer plays tennis with history.
Kaufman’s puppet-play allows us to find grace in the despair of everyday life.
A critic’s documentary about an iconic dialogue gives new life to old debates.
Supernatural terrors conspire with the evils of war in this bold new adaptation.
The film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel burns quietly.
The celebrated British novelist returns with his followup to 2014’s “The Bone Clocks.”