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.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
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MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.
BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.
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First Listen
Oreo Jones Invites You to Kick Back with a Pre-Roll on New Single “Dorothy Dandridge in E Minor”
The Indianapolis emcee’s new album NEPHEW will arrive September 20 via Joyful Noise offshoot Church of Noise Records.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
Current Joys Write a Love Song They Don’t Want to Live with “They Shoot Horses”
Surf Curse’s Nick Rattigan will release his latest solo record, East My Love, on October 11 via Secretly Canadian.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
knitting Search for Their Lucky Charm on New Single “Heaven”
The Montreal quartet’s debut album Some Kind of Heaven arrives September 6 via Mint Records.
August 13, 2024
First Listen
Nara’s Room Meditate on Alienation with New Singles “Holden” and “Waiting for the z”
The Brooklyn trio’s new grungegaze LP Glassy star arrives October 18 via Mtn Laurel Recordings.
August 12, 2024
Track by Track
Air’s JB Dunckel Breaks Down Each Track on His Ballet Score “Möbius Morphosis”
With the soundtrack out now on vinyl, the composer shares how each recording aims to reflect the movement on stage.
August 09, 2024
First Listen
Michael Love Michael Returns with New LP “Bruiser,” Shares Second Single “Deer”
The Britney-meets-NIN track arrives with a Blair Witch-meets-Midsommar visual ahead of the songwriter’s latest album, out October 4 via Get Better Records.
August 08, 2024
First Listen
Nicole Marxen Share an Early Stream of Her Haunting Debut LP “Thorns”
Following her 2021 EP Tether, the Dallas-based gothic-rock songwriter’s debut LP officially drops tomorrow.
August 08, 2024
First Listen
Naked Roommate Take in the Rhythm of the City on New Single “Bus”
The Oakland-based synth-punk ensemble’s second album Pass the Loofah will arrive on October 25 via Trouble in Mind.
August 07, 2024
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Font’s Debut Album “Strange Burden”
From dance and film to superstition and the uncanny, the Austin-based quartet share the ideas that fueled their new dance-punk LP.
August 06, 2024
First Listen
Divine Sweater Step Into Their New Selves on New Single “Light Taker”
The Boston dream-pop collective’s latest album A Time for Everything arrives September 13 via Better Company Records.
August 06, 2024
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Adeline Hotel Gets to the Bottom of a Dissolved Relationship on New Single “Whodunnit”
Dan Knishkowy reveals that his new album of the same name will arrive September 27 via Ruination Records.
August 05, 2024
First Listen
Video Age Reimagine Their “Away From the Castle” Title Track as a Duet with Esther Rose
Retitled “Out in the Country,” the track arrives with a visual of Rose and Video Age’s Ross Farbe performing live in Nashville.
August 05, 2024
Killer Mike Puts a Cap on His “Michael” Era with New LP “Songs for Sinners & Saints”
The LP released under the moniker Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival is out now as a free download.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Euphoria Again Shares a Song About Moving on with “Sky Remembers”
Waiting on Time to Fly, John Klein’s third album under the slacker-folk moniker, is out November 15 via Born Losers.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Spirit Night Returns with New LP “Time Won’t Tell,” Shares Lead Single “Darker Now”
Dylan Balliett’s follow-up to last August’s Bury the Dead arrives October 4.
August 02, 2024
First Listen
Spiral XP Soundtrack Their Own Demise in the Video for New Track “Luna”
The Seattle-based shoegazers are also sharing that their debut album I Wish I Was a Rat will be out October 18 via Danger Collective.
August 01, 2024
First Look
Sima Cunningham Shares a Snapshot of Her Life in the Video for New Single “Your Bones”
High Roller, the debut solo record from the Finom co-leader, arrives August 30 via Ruination Records.
August 01, 2024
First Listen
SIRA* Explores the Idea of Joy in the End Times with “Cosmic Shebeen”
Nigerian musician and visual artist Zina Saro-Wiwa sees apocalypse as a celebration of the end of a cycle in the video for the new track.
July 31, 2024
Playlist
Casino Hearts’ “Lose Your Halo” Influences Playlist
The LA-based trio shares how Duster, SASAMI, SOPHIE, and more influenced the dream-pop sound of their debut EP.
July 30, 2024
First Listen
Scout Gillett Announces New EP “Imagination, MO.,” Shares Lead Single “Closer”
Out September 5, the self-released project notably features a cover of Deftones’ “Change (In the House of Flies)” recorded with her father.
July 30, 2024
