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.
Babehoven, Water’s Here in You
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert’s second LP of lush indie-folk is warm and inviting as ever, though the album’s impressionistic storytelling tends to keep the listener at arm’s length.
Maria Chiara Argirò, Closer
The London-based art-pop composer shifts into more polished electronic club music territory on her third solo LP as we hear her wrestle with a sense of connection.
METZ, Up on Gravity Hill
The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the band METZ.
Katherine Yeske Taylor
The former Joy Division and New Order bassist honors both bands as he tours with his new group, Peter Hook & the Light.
With their fifth full-length, the self-proclaimed Birkenstocks of indie rock reemerge with a determinedly optimistic attitude.
The prolific comedian/musician (and his dog Luci) spend a day showing us the best things to do in Greenwich Village.
As they prepare to release new albums—Pierson as a solo artist, Hay with Pylon Reenactment Society—the Athens-bred musicians reminisce about the legendary scene they helped create.
Regarded as one of the most influential drummers in rock, The Police’s percussionist is reissuing his earliest work under the mysterious alter ego.
Four decades since co-founding Erasure, Yazoo, and Depeche Mode, the synthpop innovator discusses finally going it alone with Songs of Silence—his debut record under his given name.
With a new best-of solo compilation and gorgeous guitar book out now, the guitarist reflects on his many accomplishments.
The alums of The Cure and Siouxsie & the Banshees discuss finding true freedom with their latest musical project alongside producer Jacknife Lee and a slate of familiar collaborators.
Neil Halstead discusses the pioneering shoegaze band’s first release in six years, an unabashedly optimistic look at the dark times it emerged from.
After three decades as an acclaimed songwriter, Case discusses her much-deserved career retrospective, which received a physical release last month.
Nearly 25 years into her renowned synthpop career, the Goldfrapp vocalist discusses launching her solo career with this effervescent debut.
Guitarist Daniel Ash explains how the group is re-emerging from the ashes of Bauhaus, this time with vinyl reissues and a set of US tour dates.
Jason Williamson shares how the English post-punk duo continues to reveal our world’s darkest corners in a way that’ll make you dance on their unflinching 12th album UK Grim.
From veggie burgers and Moroccan coffee to hardcore-punk record shops, the Ukrainian punk takes us through a perfect day in his adopted hometown.