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.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard, Neptunes
Each track on the electronic composer and Hot Chip leader’s debut EP together has a unique rhythmic texture, with the constant theme being a wall of bass that transports you to a celestial space.
New Order, Brotherhood [Definitive Edition]
With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Josh Tillman focuses his lens on death on his darkly comedic sixth album as eclectic instrumentation continues to buttress his folky chamber pop beyond ’70s pastiche.
Margaret Farrell
It’s the first glimpse of new music from twigs since last summer’s one-off single “Killer.”
This is the second single from the collaborators following last month’s “Pay It No Mind”—both of which will feature on the record that’s out March 31.
The duo’s latest album Everything Harmony is out May 5 via Captured Tracks.
Her new album Through and Through is out April 28 via Secretly.
It’s the second single and title track from Rose’s forthcoming album that’s out April 21 via New West.
Her Sub Pop debut GOOD LUCK is out March 24.
The group are going on tour with Death Cab for Cutie, Alex G, and Weezer this year.
The second single from My Soft Machine features production assistance from Brockhampton’s Romil Hemnani and Carter Lang.
It’s the Jagjaguwar signee’s first release of the year.
SPEED RUN, the hyperpop duo’s first release for True Panther, is out April 14.
Other notable acts include Ela Minus, Zeds Dead, Caribou, and Uniiqu3 for the fest taking place Memorial Day weekend.
It’s the third single from Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume, which arrives March 17 via Warp Records.
The follow-up to 2021’s Structure is out May 26 via their new label home of Matador Records.
The Valley of Vision is out March 10 via Loma Vista.
It’s the second single from their forthcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which arrives April 28 via 4AD.
The Oakland fest featuring Le Tigre, Gravy Train!!!!, ESG, and more will take place the weekend of July 1.
We’re getting lucky with 35 minutes of unreleased music on May 12.
I Hope You Can Forgive Me is out May 12.
The duo’s new album So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.
Margaret Sohn discusses how sci-fi texts such as Ex Machina and Donna J. Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto inspired their debut album Follow the Cyborg.