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.
Dean Brandt
Dev Hynes provides a visual component to his Toro y Moi–featuring “Angel’s Pulse” single.
The Norwegian synth-pop star lists her top cuffing and uncuffing tunes by Toro y Moi, Céline Dion, and more.
The single precedes the Azure Ray songwriter’s seventh solo album, out November 11.
Barnett gives the new-wavy “Keep On” a deadpan makeover.
Sparhawk grills Watt about the writing and recording process behind his forthcoming “Storm Damage.”
The iconic London post-punk group will release the LP January 24 via their own label, pinkflag.
Stream the new EP of alternate takes from Natalie Mering’s recent LP, “Titanic Rising.”
*to camera* It’s not really a pop song.
As promised, the Chicago rappers debut their new moniker with an icy single.
The addition of Weyes Blood, JPEGMAFIA, Japanese Breakfast, and more position the Amazon fest as a must-attend event.
Three of Chicago’s most promising rappers are up to something.
The Berklee multi-instrumentalist walks us through his three-track debut.
The latest from Wilco’s Nels Cline and Cibo Matto’s Yuka C. Honda is a dizzy blend of synths and guitars.
The single marks Dan Snaith’s first new music since 2014’s “Our Love” LP.
The latest release from the LA-based vocalist and producer on Arts & Crafts is now streaming everywhere.
Paramore drummer Zac Farro talks us through his third solo album of Afropop-infused psych.
The French one-woman-band introduces her fourth LP of dark folk with a speedy acoustic single.
Nearing the one-year anniversary of “Bottle It In,” the songwriter takes us behind the scenes of the album’s making.
“Civilisation I” arrives just in time for the London trio’s North American takeover.
The Turkish psych collective have garnered praise from Tame Impala, King Gizzard, and Edward Sharpe.