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.
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Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.
Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Margaret Farrell
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Parquet Courts Are Savoring the Chaos on “Walking at a Downtown Pace”
The single and its video arrive ahead of “Sympathy for Life,” out October 22 on Rough Trade.
August 18, 2021
Waxahatchee Breathes New Life into Woody Guthrie’s Classic “Talking Dust Bowl Blues”
The cover will appear on “Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads,” out September 10 on Elektra Records.
August 18, 2021
Lorde Undergoes Mystical Transformation and Searches for Feeling in “Mood Ring” Video
Off her third album “Solar Power,” the new single takes on the tropes of wellness culture.
August 17, 2021
St. Vincent’s “Daddy’s Home” Video Pays Homage to the Dirt-Smudged Sparkle of the ’70s
The new visual from Annie Clark features three bedazzled but lackadaisical dancers, a flasher, and Demi Adejuyigbe.
August 17, 2021
Kari Faux Announces “Lowkey Superstar Deluxe” with New Single “Too Much, Too Fast”
The album—released with Don Giovanni Records, and featuring J.I.D., Jazz Cartier, Yung Baby Tate, and Smino—arrives September 24.
August 17, 2021
On “Dogma,” Circuit des Yeux Ventures on an Odyssey of Instinct
It’s the lead single from their sixth album “-io,” which is out October 22 via Matador.
August 17, 2021
Track by Track
binki Walks Us Through His Energizing EP “Motor Function”
The songwriter’s debut is out now via Fader Label.
August 16, 2021
Disclosure Welcome Us Back to the Dance Floor with “In My Arms”
It’s the duo’s first new music of 2021.
August 16, 2021
Bon Iver Announces 10th Anniversary Shows and Reissue of “Bon Iver, Bon Iver”
The limited edition reissue comes with a personal essay by Phoebe Bridgers.
August 16, 2021
Girl K Get Lost in Existential Revelry (and the ’80s) on New Single “Hah”
The Chicago-based group is dropping their new EP “Girl K Is for the People” on September 10.
August 13, 2021
Lizzo and Cardi B Want You to Know the “Rumors” Are True
This one’s for all the “Hercules” (1997) heads out there.
August 13, 2021
Track by Track
Jackie Hayes Unpacks the Biblical Lies and Time Theft That Informed Her New EP
The Chicago-based songwriter breaks down her EP “There’s Always Going to Be Something,” which is out now.
August 13, 2021
NAO Implores Us to Not Run From Ourselves on “Wait”
It’s the second single from the London singer’s third album “And Then Life Was Beautiful,” out September 24.
August 12, 2021
Onyx Collective Get Wrapped Up in a Hypnotic Groove on the Chromeo-Produced “Tango”
This is the third single from the NYC jazz group to be co-produced by Dave 1 and P-Thugg.
August 12, 2021
Film + TV
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein Fight Over a Rockstar’s Reality in “The Nowhere Inn” Clip
The Bill Benz–directed film is available September 17 through IFC Films.
August 12, 2021
In Conversation
In Conversation: Speaking LUMP Language with Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay
The duo discuss unraveling the riddle of the unconscious on their second album together, “Animal.”
August 12, 2021
Tasha Clings to Joy on “Lake Superior”
The new single follows this past March’s “Would You Mind Please Pulling Me Close.”
August 11, 2021
Shower Curtain Can’t Escape Herself on the Contemplative Bedroom-Pop of “Running”
Her new EP “Something Instead” is out September 24.
August 11, 2021
Cherry Glazerr Lets Her Guard Down on New Moonlit Single “Soft Drink”
The new track follows “Big Bang” from earlier this year.
August 10, 2021
spill tab Connects with Tommy Genesis on the Carbonated Dance Track “Indecisive”
It’s this year’s third single from the Los Angeles–based musician and part-time tattoo artist.
August 10, 2021
