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.
Mac Miller, Balloonerism
This unearthed material collects a cohesive set of world-weary character studies examining the slippery slide of self-medication—even if it’s only an interpretation of the late artist’s vision.
Frank Black, Teenager of the Year [30th Anniversary Edition]
Bolder, weirder, and less Pixies-like than his solo debut, this vast collection of contagious pop vibes and oddball character studies remains Black Francis’ finest musical moment on his own.
Iggy Pop, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023
Recorded at the Swiss fest’s Stravinsky Hall with a seven-piece ensemble, the punk icon crams his deeply expansive catalog into one loud bomb-drop.
Dillon Riley
The Raleigh group reemerge from a period of emotional instability and music industry strife with big hooks and swinging sonic motifs that often thrillingly end far from where they begin.
Distilling familiar, if slightly incongruent influences into an uncanny listen, the Pittsburgh collective’s sophomore release makes good on the promise of their early offerings.
On their Topshelf debut, the Philly shoegaze group put an impressive twist on a precious sound that places them in a rarefied class of their own.
There’s a strange feeling lurking within each song on the duo’s debut, as if some extra musical element is just beyond the horizon, a shoe that’s yet to drop.
The Boston trio’s third album succeeds in setting the slowcore group apart from their contemporaries through sheer force of personality.
These 10 tracks of countrified indie rock sound primed to soundtrack plenty of beer-battered bull sessions.
Expect the project’s debut EP out March 19 via Babe City and Topshelf Records.
The Swedish band unearths an old tune in lieu of their cancelled tour with The Radio Dept.