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.
Nia Archives, Silence Is Loud
With her debut collection of drum and bass music, the English musician comments on the history of a multitude of subgenres in a way that’s never navel-gazey and always assured.
girl in red, I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!
Marie Ulven’s revved-up sophomore LP is both fun and uncomfortable, a poperatic portrait of the artist fucking up and learning in real time.
Cloud Nothings, Final Summer
Though continuing to build off the blueprint of 2012’s Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi replaces some of that early release’s angst with a measured positivity on the group’s eighth album.
Jane Lai
The Chicago-based songwriter’s debut collection of songs pair perfectly like ginger and garlic in oil, stewing a culmination of flavors that emerge.
Samia maintains a distinct harmonization and strong narratives which lend themselves to the release’s biggest highlights.
Alex Montenegro’s soft pop with a smidge of twang is a refreshing fusion of genres that proves the artist’s malleability.
Madeline Johnston’s third album explores what it means to be lonely and loud simultaneously within a world crumbling around us.
2nd Grade adds new twists and turns to their 2018 debut while maintaining their sincere and fun power-pop packaging.
The band’s sophomore album balances a pop-punk grit with the complication of heartbreak.
The NY duo succeeds at revamping overworked pop songs by accenting a spin of straight-from-the-heart sincerity.
The group’s remastered 2011 LP arrives with 4 bonus tracks, new artwork, and plenty of nostalgia.
The Philly punks’ latest resurrects simmering ’90s punk on their five-track EP, which covers plenty of ground.
Mia Joy Rocha’s debut set of dirges sprinkled with honeyed lullabies are sure to drop you into an unexpected dreamscape.