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.
Franz Ferdinand, The Human Fear
The Scottish rockers’ sixth album leans into variety with the help of a new lineup, though most of the LP’s highlights come in the form of singles exhibiting the band’s tried-and-true sound.
Ethel Cain, Perverts
More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Sadie Sartini Garner
Assembled by Justin Gage of Aquarium Drunkard.
Congratulation to the coasts and Montreal!
Make it a Blockbuster night.
The Fifth Beatle passed away at the age of ninety.
Have we ever needed Mavis Staples more than we do right now?
It’s the fourth version of the Illinois track Sufjan has released.
The group’s self-titled debut drops June 3 on Fat Possum.
From April’s “Love Streams”.
The Third Man signees dropped their debut 7″ on Friday.
Only they can’t call it “The Super Bowl.”
“Your mystery’s so deep Archimedes wouldn’t think to try and figure out it.”
Hughes not only gets away with that line and a hundred more like it on “Animals,” his chummy confidence almost neuters their silliness.
“Pandora for news” is here. Is that a good thing?
Doctor Who’s Matt Smith stars as Robert Mapplethorpe.
When Tyler Kershaw was a young suburban kid, he did what plenty of other young suburban kids did: he made…
Three years after bursting to life on “Silence Yourself”, the London post-punk quartet return in a reflective—but no less brutal—mode.
Lee and Pinkett Smith both boycott the ceremony.
The Canadian group’s five-year hiatus comes to a close.
The group’s debut LP “Die Alone” hits stores February 19.
Big day for the Prez.