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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Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.
Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Mike LeSuer
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Tyler, the Creator / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Camp Flog Gnaw Lineup Announced, Featuring Everyone But Frank Ocean
With one mystery headliner yet to be announced, of course “Frank Ocean” is trending on Twitter.
August 12, 2019
Track by Track
Matt Muse Breaks Down “Love & Nappyness” Track by Track
The Chicago rapper defies cliché by addressing five different forms of love on his new EP.
August 09, 2019
Playlist
PLAYLIST: Debby Friday’s Songs That Remind Her Why She Loves Music
The experimental producer lists ten tracks that helped her keep things fresh while writing “DEATH DRIVE.”
August 09, 2019
Hovvdy Announce Third LP “Heavy Lifter,” Share Lead Single “Cathedral”
The exploratory new record from the Austin duo is out October 18 via Double Double Whammy.
August 07, 2019
PREMIERE: Kal Marks Announce New EP with “Heads Been Ringing”
Their “love song to tinnitus” introduces the Boston grunge outfit’s latest release, “Let the Shit House Burn Down.”
August 07, 2019
Ariel Pink Announces First Installment of Ariel Archives Series
The retrospective collection kicks off with three reissued Haunted Graffiti LPs, all out October 25 on Mexican Summer.
August 06, 2019
PREMIERE: Oh Sees Dedicate “Captain Loosely” Video to Victims of the El Paso Massacre
The ambient new single from “Face Stabber” is paired with an eerie video.
August 06, 2019
ICYMI, Here’s Little Simz Covering “Feel Good Inc.”
The U.K. rapper stepped into the Like a Version booth to cover the 2005 Gorillaz single.
August 05, 2019
Track by Track
Possible Humans Break Down “Everybody Split” Track by Track
The Aussie jangle pop group describe their new album in not entirely un-Burroughs-like terms.
August 02, 2019
Playlist
PLAYLIST: oso oso’s Songs That Inspired “basking in the glow”
Jade Lilitri offers up ten tracks that informed the sounds of his band’s latest LP.
August 02, 2019
LISTEN: IDLES Share “I Dream Guillotine,” Are Mad About Something
The single arrives ten days after their native U.K. elected a new PM. Weird!
August 02, 2019
Track by Track
Slaughter Beach, Dog Break Down “Safe and Also No Fear” Track by Track
Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald gives us the play-by-play for his Americana-conscious solo project’s third album.
August 02, 2019
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 Tracks from July 2019 You Should Know
Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.
August 01, 2019
PREMIERE: Queen of Jeans Move on in “All the Same” Video
The Philly trio serenade dates in the video for the second single from “If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid.”
August 01, 2019
WATCH: Bon Iver Assure Us They’re the Same Band They’ve Always Been in New Doc Short
Justin Vernon and crew talk the intimate nature of new album “i,i” in WeTransfer-produced film.
July 31, 2019
Film + TV
Jennifer Kent Talks Humanity and Timeless Violence in “The Nightingale”
The “Babadook” writer/director is ready to terrify you all over again with her new film.
July 31, 2019
PREMIERE: Spinning Coin Announce New 7-Inch, Share “Visions at the Stars”
The jangly Glasgow band follow up their 2017 debut with a pair of tracks set for an August 30 release.
July 31, 2019
Oberhofer Explains How He Got “oO0OoO0Oo” Into Our iTunes Libraries
Celebrating (approximately) ten years of the songwriter’s first and most unpronounceable release.
July 30, 2019
Stream SHADI’s Debut LP “You Can’t Hear Me” Before Its Release Date
The Tampa rapper/producer takes cues from past collaborators Daveed Diggs and JPEGMAFIA on the eleven experimental tracks.
July 29, 2019
Playlist
PLAYLIST: Strange Ranger Recall the Songs That Inspired “Remembering the Rockets”
From Red House Painters to Oneohtrix Point Never, the Philly rockers give some context for their experimental new record.
July 26, 2019
