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.
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.
Wild Pink, Dulling the Horns
Addressing the tension between complacency and contentment, John Ross’ fifth LP embraces chunky, feedback-laden chords and a more abrasive live-band sound than he’s ever explored.
The Smile, Cutouts
The outfit’s third LP feels like a spiritual twin to Wall of Eyes, improving upon that record’s cohesion as well as its prog-influenced songwriting, cinematic strings, and pleasing rhythms.
Mike Hilleary
Tegan Quin discusses the sisters’ new album Crybaby, their new TV series High School, and surviving another set of overlapping press cycles.
With her debut EP “Faking My Own Death” out this Friday, the songwriter discusses making the leap from Texas to NYC, recording with Lord Huron, and becoming a cowboy.
In our latest digital cover story, Baker dives into the experiences that led to her new album “Little Oblivions.”
The songwriter dishes on Booker T’s anecdotes, the inspiration of Willie Nelson’s “Stardust,” and finally going solo.
The songwriter discusses what she describes as her treatise on having a personal life during the apocalypse.
The Alabama songwriter talks her new record and the challenges of being sober in the music biz.
In our first digital cover story, the duo discuss the new album, establishing distinct identities, and how music saved their relationship.
The songwriter on the quick evolution from her 2017 breakthrough to this month’s “Anak Ko.”
Along with Julien Baker + Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, Grant remembers Scott Hutchison’s brutally honest artistry.
On her debut “Beware of the Dogs,” the Aussie singer-songwriter addresses the progress and pain of #MeToo.
The “Our Band Could Be Your Life” writer has a new book, “Rock Critic Law,” which lays out 101 of the tropes that lazy music writers can’t seem to help but fall back on over and over. But he isn’t mad—he’s just trying to make writers better.
With “≠,” the producer known as DSARDY aims to address technology’s dehumanizing effects by enlisting the help of the industry’s preeminent humans.
After the election, the Richmond artist threw out the introspective album she’d been working on and started over. What she made next was music for everyone.
When he’s not busy playing in one of the most beloved indie bands around, Chris Funk is looking for the stories that get to the core of what drives musicians.
Across all of “Turn Out the Lights,” Baker doesn’t pull a single punch.
As much as “Beast Epic”‘s music feels like a look back with a head full of experience, it doesn’t stop Sam Beam from keeping his lyrical gaze on what’s ahead of him.
Art at ground level.
Behind the boards with Mario Caldato Jr.
The longtime “Rolling Stone” critic’s new book examines the Fab Four in a new light.
Since starting over three years ago, the song dissection podcast has turned into an institution—but it continues to surprise its creator with each episode.