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.
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Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
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MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.
Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.
Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
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Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Squid
The UK art-punks document their brief set of dates in Asia to close out a year of touring their second LP, O Monolith.
January 16, 2024
Neighborhoods
Watch Talk Show Perform “Gold” in Rainy London for “Neighborhoods”
The electro-rock four-piece play through the single from their forthcoming debut album Effigy in a beer garden in Hackney.
January 16, 2024
FLOOD FM
Join Tom Windish This Week on a New Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”
The veteran booking agent spins tracks by Nick Hakim, Stephen Sanchez, Arooj Aftab, and more.
January 16, 2024
Art & Culture
Tanya Donelly, Amanda Palmer, and Lydia Lunch Talk Combatting Sexism in Exclusive Excerpts from New Book “She’s a Badass”
Subtitled “Women in Rock Shaping Feminism,” Katherine Yeske Taylor’s book is out January 16 via Backbeat Books.
January 10, 2024
Neighborhoods
Watch Bathe Alone Play “Call Me Back” in Decatur, Georgia for “Neighborhoods”
Bailey Crone plays through the new single with her band before they head to SXSW in March.
January 09, 2024
FLOOD FM
Join Slowdive All Week on the Year’s First Episode of FLOOD FM’s “Hacked”
The band kicks off 2024 for us with a takeover featuring Drab Majesty, Nation of Language, Cocteau Twins, and more.
January 08, 2024
Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Mandy, Indiana
The Manchester-based dance-punk collective shares photo highlights from their brief set of December dates here in the US.
January 03, 2024
Neighborhoods
Watch Hannah Marks Perform in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park for “Neighborhoods”
Joined by vocalist Sarah Rossy and guitarist Jack Broza, the bassist plays the track “I’ll Ask Anyway” from her debut record Outsider, Outlier on a sunny day in New York City.
January 02, 2024
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: The Best of 2023
40 of our favorite live shots from the year including boygenius, Arctic Monkeys, Weyes Blood, The Cure, Kendrick Lamar, Turnstile, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and more.
December 28, 2023
Film + TVStaff Picks
The Best Films of 2023
10 movies that feel bolder with every repeat viewing.
December 20, 2023
Film + TVStaff Picks
The Best TV of 2023
10 series that continued to push the medium forward.
December 19, 2023
Peggy Gou
FLOOD FM
Announcing FLOOD FM’s 50 Most Played Tracks of 2023
From Peggy Gou and OPN to Yard Act and Arlo Parks, here are the songs we couldn’t stop spinning over the past 12 months.
December 18, 2023
Staff Picks
The Best Songs of 2023
From bold and cathartic statements of newfound independence to unapologetic anthems for a one-weekend stand, here are the 10 most inventive tracks we heard in 2023.
December 14, 2023
FLOOD FM
Tune in for FLOOD FM’s Second Annual “Cool Yule Xmas” Radio Special
The special programming of eclectic holiday hits spanning indie, punk, hip-hop, and beyond kicks off this Sunday, December 17, and runs through the rest of the year only on FLOOD FM.
December 14, 2023
Graphic: Jerome Curchod Photos: Zachary Gray, Jack Grange, Shervin Lainez, Steve Gullick, Gunner Stahl, Toby Leveson
Staff Picks
The Best Albums of 2023
From rap to pop to R&B to punk, this year was defined by a lack of homogeneity.
December 12, 2023
Neighborhoods
Watch Richie Quake Perform at Brooklyn’s Pratt Playground for “Neighborhoods”
The NYC-based songwriter gives an evening performance of “Tree” from his newly released sophomore LP Dog.
December 12, 2023
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FLOOD FM
FLOOD FM Celebrates 28 Years of Popscene All Week with “Top 28 Britpop Bangers” Radio Special
In honor of the San Francisco live music institution, Aaron Axelsen will be spinning two consecutive hours of Britpop hits released between 1995 and 2008 three times daily.
December 11, 2023
Neighborhoods
Watch Modern Nature’s Jack Cooper Perform in a Garden in Cambridge, UK for “Neighborhoods”
The songwriter strums through “Tonic” from his recent LP No Fixed Point in Space, out now via Bella Union.
December 05, 2023
Neighborhoods
Watch Slowshift Play Two Songs at the Munch Museum in Bjørvika for “Neighborhoods: Oslo”
The Of Monsters and Men offshoot performs “Every Kind of L” and “EndUp” with a 16-piece string orchestra for our special series shot around the city’s annual Øya Festival.
November 30, 2023
EventsLive, In Photos
Live, in Photos: Liz Phair and Blondshell at Ryman Auditorium
The Exile in Guyville 30th anniversary tour landed at the historic Nashville venue this week.
November 28, 2023
