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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Mike LeSuer
The Savannah-based rockers recently followed up their self-titled debut album with a Steve Albini–produced EP of the same title.
Before releasing their sophomore album this Friday, the London trio shares how Warpaint, Scott Walker, Destiny’s Child, and more helped shape their vision.
Six years after disbanding, the NYC noise-rockers reunite to discuss their newly reissued debut album Eighteen Hours of Static, community, and their unique legacy.
The new single featuring The Head and the Heart’s Jonathan Russell lands ahead of the band’s guest-heavy new album titled Winged Horse, which drops in January.
Former NFL player Antone Exum Jr. will release his new album hole on October 25, preceded by the sparse lead single.
Chicago-based songwriter Kristyn Chapman will release her introductory EP Morpho Season on November 15 via Hit the North Records.
The duo of Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney will return in October with Girl Cried Wolf, their first full-length in nearly a decade.
With the the London dance-punk group’s debut album out now, keyboardist Chris Hughes offer up some TMI commentary on what music gets their tails wagging, so to speak.
The Essex duo’s debut album What a Life arrives this Friday via the Fat Wreck imprint Bottles to the Ground.
Dave Benton’s fourth solo album Into the Burning Blue arrives September 27 via Lame-O Records.
The Toronto noise-rock group’s self-titled debut album lands October 1 via Cooked Raw.
Before returning with their first album in eight years, the PA post-hardcore band catches us up to date on what they’ve been listening to for inspiration.
The songwriter’s debut full-length The Academy will be released on September 20 via Winspear.
The single arrives with the news of the group’s debut LP I’M SORRY I DIDN’T BITE MY TONGUE, out October 25 via Share It Music.
The Chicago-via-Portland group shares how their latest EP of gothic post-punk was actually fueled by Jamaican dancehall greats.
It’s the weirdly heartwarming title track from the post-hardcore group’s doomy fifth album, which arrives next Friday via Exploding in Sound.
Vancouver-based songwriter Kylie Van Slyke reveals that the track will appear on her sophomore record Crash Test Plane, arriving November 15 via Royal Mountain.
Joe Stevens shares how Steve Reich and NYC’s Natural History Museum helped shape the sound of the band’s fourth album, out now via Topshelf Records.
The ever-adventurous neo-psych band shares how Chet Baker, Alice Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, and more helped shape their latest release, out this week via Bella Union.
Halifax-based songwriter Graham Ereaux introduces us to the cozy world of his forthcoming Heart Shaped Rock LP, arriving October 4 via Paper Bag Records.