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.
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Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010
Ahead of their reunion tour, the cult indie-pop band resurrects lost classics from the bittersweet era of nostalgia that encircled their eponymous 2009 debut.
Paul Robeson, Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings
This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.
The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow
This hypnotic, 85-minute opus which Abel Tesfaye claims will be the final statement from his long-running moniker may be his biggest bonfire to his vanities—that is, until it flames out.
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Chelsea Wolfe Walks Us Through Her New Industrial-Goth LP “She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She”
The veteran songwriter explores trip-hop and darkwave influences on her new “complex journey into the inner realm,” out now via Loma Vista.
February 09, 2024
First Listen
Heavy Feelings Cross State Lines—and International Borders—in Video for New Track “Bootlickers”
The self-titled EP from the new project of former Ganser member Nadia Garofalo and Bristol-based multi-instrumentalist Ben Shillabeer will land March 1 via Hoofbeats.
February 09, 2024
Playlist
Ducks Ltd.’s “Harm’s Way” Influences Playlist
From Merle Haggard to My Bloody Valentine, the Toronto jangle-pop duo shares what sounds helped them shape their second LP.
February 08, 2024
First Listen
Doris Club Ruminates on Familial Heartbreak on Debut Single “The Sleeper and the Bed”
Hot off the release of her latest dream-pop EP, Linying returns with a new full-length album of gentle folk music under a new moniker.
February 08, 2024
Track by Track
MX Lonely Walk Us Through Their Intense “Spit” EP Track by Track
The Brooklyn-based shoegazers’ latest release is out now via Candlepin Records.
February 07, 2024
First Listen
Sierra Spirit Shares a Slice with a Spirit in Video for Debut Single “ghost”
The rest of the Tulsa-based songwriter’s coin toss EP will be unveiled over the next few weeks.
February 07, 2024
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h. pruz Meditates on Restraint in Video for New Single “Hurting”
The Warhol-inspired clip introduces Queens-based songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky’s debut album No Glory, which will arrive March 29 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
February 06, 2024
First Listen
Alena Spanger Gives in to the Chaos on New Single “Difficult People”
The former Tiny Hazard songwriter shares that her debut solo album Fire Escape will be out March 22 via Ruination Record Co.
February 05, 2024
Track by Track
Holly Macve Breaks Down Her Diaristic New “Time Is Forever” EP Track by Track
The Irish-born songwriter returns with five new songs—including a collaboration with Lana Del Rey—which arrive today via Loving Memory Records / Believe.
February 02, 2024
Playlist
Vera Sola’s Playlist for Cold Mornings
The songwriter’s acid-Western second album, Peacemaker, arrives this week via City Slang.
February 01, 2024
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Sofia Bolt Announces New LP “Vendredi Minuit,” Ponders Orb in Video for “Go Away”
The French chamber-pop songwriter’s second album will arrive May 10 via Born Losers Records.
February 01, 2024
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STRFKR Mellow Out with ’80s-Inspired Ballad “Under Water / In Air”
The neo-psych stalwarts’ latest album, Parallel Realms, drops March 1 via Polyvinyl.
February 01, 2024
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Street Fever Ventures Into Sacred Spaces in Video for New Single “Sinner”
The new track from the anonymous EBM instigator charts a journey of self-discovery.
January 31, 2024
Playlist
15 Songs That Created Sematary
With his latest single “Wendigo” dropping earlier this month, the horrorcore emcee breaks down the origins of his sound through the discovery of Salem, Brick Squad, and more.
January 30, 2024
First Listen
Joyer Announce New LP “Night Songs,” Share Slice-of-Life Slacker-Rock Anthem “Star”
Nick and Shane Sullivan’s third record will arrive April 26 via Hit the North Records and Julia’s War.
January 29, 2024
TORRES Picks Five Favorites From the Merge Records Catalog
What an Enormous Room, Mackenzie Scott’s sixth album and third for the influential indie label, is out now.
January 26, 2024
Track by Track
Angry Blackmen Lay Out Their Lore as They Walk Us Through “The Legend of ABM”
The debut full-length from Chicago emcees Quentin Branch and Brian Warren is out now via Deathbomb Arc.
January 26, 2024
Track by Track
DJ Stepdad Breaks Down Each Track on His Eclectic New Downtempo EP “time to figure things out”
Ted Davis shares how the project went from a party moniker to a formal outlet as he walks us through the EP’s four tracks.
January 26, 2024
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Tetchy Are Bound in by Both Body and Bedroom in New “Psychosomatic” Video
The grungy tune appears on the New Yorkers’ new All in My Head EP.
January 26, 2024
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Dermabrasion Amps Up the Body Anxiety on New Single “Psychic Event”
The Toronto-based punk duo “ensure maximum brooding and rumination” on the J.G. Ballard–inspired cut from their forthcoming Pain Behaviour LP.
January 25, 2024
