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.
The Bug, Machine
Producer Kevin Martin’s debut for the metal-focused Relapse Records is a collection of instrumentals harkening back to his earliest work while always opting to go darker and heavier.
A Place to Bury Strangers, Synthesizer
Each song on the noise-rockers’ seventh LP is distinct in style and substance, allowing Oliver Ackermann to tap into his emotional self as if looking through a slowly twisted kaleidoscope.
Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “No Title As of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead”
Named in reference to the death toll in Gaza, the post-rock pioneers’ ninth full-length sounds like a requiem to the world as it is today—albeit one permeated by rays of occasional light.
Sadie Sartini Garner
“To hell with passports, let’s all be free.”
Dive! Dive! Dive!
Trust us, you should do what the man says.
The son of Malcom McLaren and Vivienne Westwood is more indebted to the forces he claims to detest than he might realize.
A Tribe Called Quest’s first album in eighteen years—and last album ever—is as urgent as “Atrocity Exhibition” and as easygoing as “The Low End Theory.”
From the good-timin’ “Apocalypse Fetish” EP.
The Queen of Funk.
From January’s “He’s Got the Whole This Land is Your Land in His Hands.”
The OKC thunderers will release “Trials and Truth” on January 27.
The group’s debut EP, “Futures,” is out now via B3SCI.
Taken from “A Beat of Silence,” which dropped last Friday.
He was our man.
We set off in search of a new Icelandic sound
Get down in Oregon, stay down in Oregon.
Taken from Watt’s forthcoming live album, “‘ring spiel’ tour ’95.”
“I might ghost ride a tank, take a ride to the bank” isn’t even among the top-five-best lines in the politically driven first take from “Run the Jewels 3.”
Direct from The 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.
Come along and ride on a fantastic voyage with the Man Man frontman.
Got a minute?
The author of “Motherless Brooklyn” and “The Fortress of Solitude” on the inspiration behind his new novel, “A Gambler’s Anatomy.”