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.
LSDXOXO, Dogma
After a series of increasingly amped-up EPs and mixtapes, the provocative Berlin-based producer’s debut album flaunts an air of detachment that makes for a confounding listen.
Jamie xx, In Waves
Nearly a decade after his solo debut, the xx producer curates a host of guest vocalists and lucid messages regarding the communal power of raving until the early morning.
Downhaul, How to Begin
The Richmond band strips down their alt-country, emo, and post-rock influences on their third LP in a full-force reckoning with mortality and metamorphosis.
Mike LeSuer
The LA fourpiece featuring members of Beach Fossils and Cold Beat reveals their new LP A Dog a Deer a Seal will drop November 10 via Get Better Records.
The track will appear on the Liverpool-based songwriter’s newly announced LP In the Midst of You, arriving in January.
Kevin Patrick Sullivan shares how everyone from Bladee to Milli Vanilli helped shape his beat-bolstered new LP.
An animated video for the single arrives ahead of the songwriter’s new LP Tender, which drops September 22 on Lex Records.
In addition to the full EP of the same name from CLAVVS’s Amber Renee and Graham Marsh dropping today, the duo share a video for the title track celebrating the waning days of summer.
Tori Zietsch’s sophomore album I Get Into Trouble lands October 13 via Partisan.
London- and Berlin-based musician Sarah Neumann will release her debut EP The Eye Against the Ashen Sky on November 3.
From Run Lola Run to Mamma Mia!, there is no disputing the goddess-ness of the films selected by Seattle’s most banned-from-Jeff-Bezo’s-Climate-Pledge-Arena supergroup.
Produced by The Lemon Twigs’ D’Addario brothers, Buy This Now! arrives October 13 via Curation Records.
Arriving with a comedic video, the track lands ahead of the Columbus-based songwriter’s new LP Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again.
Danish songwriter Nanna Øland Fabricius’ sixth LP Loop Soup arrives September 29 via her own imprint Tusk or Tooth.
Julia Kugel and Scott Montoya, the husband-and-wife duo behind the free Long Beach event, share a handful of tracks from the artists taking the stage this weekend.
The single was originally intended for an Italians Do It Better comp.
On nostalgia, bygone sub-subgenres, and, ultimately, the increasingly fallible state of music archiving.
Natalie Lew’s dream-pop EP Stop at Nothing arrives this Friday via Luminelle Recordings.
Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels’ debut album Iridescence will arrive later this year.
Katie Munshaw shares how friendships, isolation, and expectations for adult life shaped the Ontario group’s latest project, out now via Royal Mountain Records.
The Quebecois nu-disco trio’s latest record Comme dans un penthouse arrives September 22 via Lisbon Lux Records.
Created by Kramer, the video recycles footage from Jean Renoir’s 1928 film The Little Match Girl.
The horror-B-movie visual arrives with news of the San Francisco post-punks’ new album Jumbo, landing October 13 via Rocks in Your Head Records and Time Room Records.