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.
Ringo Starr, Look Up
With the aid of producer T Bone Burnett and an exciting guest list, the Beatle finds a relaxed fit for his surprisingly modern easy-does-it C&W ballads.
Shutdown, By Your Side
Written through an older and wiser lens, the NYC hardcore punks’ new EP contains the same kind of ebullience that the band possessed when they last released material 25 years ago.
Lambrini Girls, Who Let the Dogs Out
The UK duo hurls hand grenades in the direction of contemporary society’s myriad ills across their riotously fun yet deadly serious indie-punk debut.
Kyle Carney
The 1980 film “The Song of Leonard Cohen” offers a small, quiet glimpse of the songwriter’s life in Montreal.
The LA quartet’s third full-length feels like a dutiful turn toward the middle of the road.
Echoing drones, lethargic beats, and mournful chants combine to make up the New Orleans trio’s debut.
This is Aphex in retrograde, and it’s perhaps his very first concept album—albeit in EP form.
Stretched to 1000% of its original length, an Aphex Twin song suddenly exists on a different sonic plane while its component parts remain unchanged.
Puberty: way more fun the second time around.
The Toronto electronic tinkersmiths’ first album is six years feels like it’s comprised of lost artifacts of sound, rough-hewn and forged in some otherworldly studio.
The master of the drone Hecker tempestuous soundscapes on his first release for 4AD.