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.
Madison Bloom
Neko Case’s commiserations with women are simultaneously understated and powerful.
“Sparkle Hard” possesses a little bit of everything Stephen Malkmus does well—but he doesn’t stop there.
An incongruous mixture of songs—some affected, others exceptional.
The majority of “A Productive Cough” sounds cacophonous and free, as if fresh oxygen has been pumped into Patrick Stickles’s blood.