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
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.