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.
Sadie Sartini Garner
Some of Bowie’s best televised moments.
Spotify’s new live performance series brings together the recent tourmates for a take on the “Carrie & Lowell” closer.
From the forthcoming “Wabi-Sabi”.
N.W.A, Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, and Steve Miller all make the cut. The Smiths? Not so much.
Our weeklong countdown comes to an end.
One of several scenes of violence in the French capital.
“To Pimp a Butterfly”‘s complexities fill the Riviera Theater on the Chicago stop of K-dot’s club tour.
The Florida-born guitarist talks Tigers on the eve of Saturday’s SEC matchup.
Going meatless in the city of lard.
The New York guitar hero (and former member of Kurt Vile’s Violators) charms on Halloween.
The world of Garth Risk Hallberg’s massive debut novel isn’t crushed under its own weight.
Going deep into the belly of one of the best-keep secrets on television.
The Hold Steady frontman and poet laureate of the hoodrats tells us about a few of the books that influenced the creation of his new solo record, “Faith in the Future.”
From Old Montreal to Mile End and beyond.
“El sueño americano ha muerto.”
Prepare to unfollow your uncle on Facebook. Again.
And then we came to an end.
Dealing with the fallout.
“True Detective” enters its home stretch in an orgy of confusion.
Keeping it sartorial on the festival grounds in Union Park.