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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Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.
Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
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Thank’s Favorite Hater Anthems
On the heels of their own diss track “Writing Out a List of All the Names of God,” the Leeds band shares nine tracks that turn being a hater into an art form.
August 28, 2024
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Los Bitchos’ New LP “Talkie Talkie”
The London-based guitar-rock quartet share how everything from cooking to GTA: Vice City inspired their sophomore album, which arrives this week via City Slang.
August 27, 2024
First Listen
Katrina Ford Pays Homage to the Landscape of Baltimore’s Harbor with “Dundalk Dungeon”
The single teases a new release from the former Celebration vocalist.
August 27, 2024
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
