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.
Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.
Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible
The breathless riffs, ferocious pace, and veteran sense of security that define this debut album from the metalcore supergroup feel like the work of a band desperate to escape their history.
Kevin Ayers, All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973
Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.
Kurt Orzeck
The pop-punk trio try to make sense of the present moment while continuing to push the project’s boundaries toward easy-to-digest rock songs nicely balanced by soft punk flourishes.
Here are 24 of the most stylish, bizarre, and NSFW items still available to purchase at your favorite artist’s webstore to commemorate a particularly interesting year in music.
From alt-country in Boise to melodic death metal in Central Europe, our most diem-carpe-ing contributor ranks his experiences after witnessing nearly 150 sets over the course of 365 days.
The five songs on Rick Maguire and his band’s soft follow-up to last year’s All Fiction exude a cozy feel that favors a comfortable, even homespun-sounding, experience.
On the heels of its 30th anniversary—inspiring a massive remastered box set and an expanded version of Michael Azerrad’s iconic band biography—we look back on the LP that unexpectedly gave Nevermind a run for its money.
The focus of the Montreal-based songwriter’s impossibly quiet second record is squarely on tapping into the natural world and reminding us of the wonders that it provides us with.
The Canadian trio’s aptly titled fifth record features peaks and valleys of mood and intensity throughout, each song charged with a different distinct feeling.
On what could be considered his first true solo record, Jonny Pierce processes decades of grief on a collection of songs that twinkles, soothes, and inspires.
Although perhaps eclipsed by the bonus-track-heavy deluxe edition from 10 years ago, this latest reissue of the alt-rock pioneers’ sophomore LP signals another splash of interest in Kim Deal’s post-Pixies career.
Band members Nick Jost and Sebastian Thomson walk us through the Savannah, Georgia–based metal group’s sixth full-length.
The instrumental post-rockers’ seventh LP finds them even more lost than they were when venturing into the wilderness seven years ago.
The re-release of the metalcore icons’ 2017 LP is enhanced by five additional tracks—which some of the band members wanted to include in the first place.
Constructed more like an avant-garde score than a traditional rock album, the 97-minute second LP from the LA-based noise-rock group is a complex piece of music-as-art.
Toting previously unheard demos, the Kill Rock Stars imprint’s remastering of the math rock duo’s first record is critical to keeping their unrivaled combustibility lodged in our brains.
The long-running band from Detroit proves that they need just five seconds to win over listeners who gravitate toward the type of quality noise-pop that takes chances.
Riley’s father Brandon and board members of Dallas Hope Charities reflect on the late musician’s deep humanity and prolific charitability on the third anniversary of his passing.
Properly mixed and mastered for the first time, the strongest quality of this live release documenting the noise-rock icons’ legendary final US show is its flawless separation of sound.
Returning to the label that released some of the band’s most iconic work over a decade ago, John Dwyer’s latest belongs in that company.
The dream-pop group’s 1994 sophomore LP is their most quintessential, capturing their alternatively whimsical and sulking spirit, framed with emotionally transformative songcraft.
The Austin band’s nine-song synopsis on disappointment is conversational, lush-yet-tempered pop music that delivers straight up.