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.
Jordana, Lively Premonition
Refitting the yacht rock and Laurel Canyon sounds of the ’70s and ’90s country for the modern bedroom-pop era, the songwriter’s willingness to experiment keeps her fourth LP interesting.
Porridge Radio, Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me
Largely inspired by vocalist Dana Margolin’s dreams, the Brighton band’s fourth album is a darkly poetic reclaiming of self that softens their prior output’s jagged edges.
Nap Eyes, The Neon Gate
The Canadian band’s playful fifth album finds the middle ground between live rawness and a glossy studio sound, pairing mid-fi rock jams with funky recitations of Yeats and Pushkin.
Margaret Farrell
The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.
The 14-track collection comes from his three sold-out hometown shows at the Philadelphia venue in 2022.
Following the passing of drummer Dee Pop, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley recorded drums and produced They Live in My Mind.
The free outdoor concert series, curated this year by L’Rain, takes place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from June 7 through August 24.
Cosentino’s new record will arrive July 28 via Concord Records as her band takes an indefinite hiatus.
Lead single “Bogus Operandi” arrives ahead of the new LP The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which is out August 11.
The track comes with the announcement of Claud’s sophomore album Supermodels, arriving July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.
Sugar the Bruise is out June 16 via Fat Possum.
Ahead of their debut for Matador Records, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos talk Everyone’s Crushed, changing routines, and newfound exposure—well, actually mostly just 311.
Two groups making Chicago proud.
The Become EP, a collection of five outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions, will also be widely available on vinyl on May 19.
So Many Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.
Their newly announced Din EP is out June 30 via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.
“Hinoki Wood” is the opening track from the follow-up to 2020’s Mia Gargaret, arriving May 26.
The follow-up to 2020’s Lowkey Superstar is out May 26 via drink sum wtr.
I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth album, is out July 7 via Partisan.
Hear the first two singles from More Photographs (A Continuum), which is out May 26 via Dead Oceans.
The collaboration marks Thundercat’s first new music in three years.
The solo debut comes in the wake of Fontaines’ 2022 album Skinty Fia.
The London-based trio’s self-titled debut album is out May 12 via Third Man Records.