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)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Osees, Abomination Revealed at Last
John Dwyer has crafted his most overtly political album yet in terms of both its lyrical and musical attack, with his band’s recent linear and pared-down punk style put to enjoyably cutthroat use.
Marianne Faithfull, Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings
Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.
Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.
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First Listen
Puddled Are Making Big Changes on New Track “Between”
The single arrives with the news that the Philadelphia-based group’s self-titled debut EP is arriving September 26 via Crafted Sounds.
August 27, 2024
Playlist
Spring Silver’s “Don’t You Think It’s Strange?” Influences Playlist
K Nkanza shares how French house music, British dance-punk, and whatever you might classify Mew as helped shape their latest LP.
August 26, 2024
First Listen
Dummy Cross-Wire Ambient Dance Music with Droning Pop on New Single “Blue Dada”
A video for the latest single from the LA collective’s new album Free Energy also includes the sax-heavy preceding track, “Opaline Bubbletear.”
August 26, 2024
First Listen
Skullpresser Give the Middle Finger to a Oppressors on New Track “Born to Please”
The project featuring members of The Wonder Years and Mannequin Pussy will release their sophomore EP Positions of Power on September 3 via Born Losers.
August 23, 2024
First ListenTrack by Track
Melt-Banana Share an Early Stream of Their First LP in 11 Years, “3+5”
Yako and Agata also break the release down track by track to give us a better sense of how all nine recordings came together.
August 22, 2024
First Look
Caleb Landry Jones Announces “Hey Gary, Hey Dawn” Deluxe Edition, Shares Animated Visual for “Hey Gary”
The musician/actor’s fourth album—originally released back in April—will arrive with nearly twice as many tracks on September 13.
August 21, 2024
Playlist
Uniform’s “American Standard” Influences Playlist
With their newly extended lineup, the industrial-metal group shares their newly extended pool of inspiration for their fifth record.
August 20, 2024
First Listen
Claude Fontaine Brings a 300-Year-Old Hotel Room to Life on New Track “Green Ivy Tapestry”
The LA-based songwriter’s second album, La Mer, is out September 6 via Innovative Leisure.
August 20, 2024
First Listen
Worlds Greatest Dad Wrestle with Responsibility and Helplessness on New Single “Taking One for the Team”
The Atlanta-based pop-punk group’s second album Better Luck Next Time lands September 13 via SideOneDummy.
August 20, 2024
First Look
Cal in Red Are Living in the Moment in New Video for “Frontside”
The Grand Rapids–based duo’s debut album Low Low arrives next Friday via B3SCI Records.
August 19, 2024
Jean Dawson Returning in October with New LP “Glimmer of God,” Shares First Single feat. Lil Yachty
“Die for Me” is the first single from Dawson’s first full-length since 2022’s CHAOS NOW*.
August 16, 2024
Playlist
ratbag’s Down the Rabbit Hole Playlist
Following the release of her first single of 2024, the songwriter and visual artist shares a collection of “songs that send her somewhere else.”
August 16, 2024
First Listen
Anthers Bring an Appropriate Amount of Heaviness to “Mabel,” a Song About Cutting Ties
The Seattle trio’s debut EP Pedigree Pig will be released on September 20.
August 16, 2024
Playlist
Delicate Steve’s “Great Music: Pass It On” Playlist
Delicate Steve Sings, guitarist Steve Marion’s new record of instrumental covers and original compositions, is out this Friday via ANTI-.
August 14, 2024
First Listen
Little Hag Begs to Get Eternal-Sunshined on New Track “Suck Out the Pain”
The latest album from the project fronted by Avery Mandeville, Now That’s What I Call Little Hag, is out August 23 on Bar/None Records.
August 14, 2024
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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
