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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The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.
JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.
Cory Hanson, I Love People
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
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Track by Track
The Notwist Break Down Their Collaboration-Heavy New LP “Vertigo Days” Track by Track
The German group’s first record in six years is out now.
January 29, 2021
Orson Wilds Bring Their Live Energy to the Video for New Single “Mothers Daughters”
The duo’s debut will arrive later this year via Will Yip’s Elektra Music Group imprint.
January 28, 2021
Track by Track
Flatbush Zombies’ Erick the Architect Breaks Down His Debut Solo EP “Future Proof” Track by Track
The rapper talks us through all five tracks on the project chronicling the chaotic year that was 2020.
January 26, 2021
Reviews
The Besnard Lakes, “…Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings”
The return of the Canadian ensemble provides us with a late-Malick meditation on mortality.
January 26, 2021
Calyx (Literally) Make New Friends in Their “Noseeums” Video
The mathy Pittsburgh punks demonstrate their artistic skills in the clip for their latest single.
January 26, 2021
Film + TV
It’s Time to Talk About Michel Gondry as an Auteur Rather Than as a Music Video Director
Though he would probably reject such a formal label, the French director’s work is certainly worthy of study.
January 22, 2021
Cathedral Bells Share the Title Track Ahead of the Release of Their New Album “Ether”
The dream pop trio’s latest arrives January 29 via Spirit Goth Records.
January 22, 2021
Warren Dunes Channel Fear and Confusion on New Single “Tether”
The Seattle band’s debut album “Get Well Soon” arrives March 19.
January 20, 2021
Playlist
Palberta’s Playlist of “Fire Vocal Takes”
The punk trio compiles 16 tracks—and a couple controversial takes—ahead of their new album “Palberta5000.”
January 19, 2021
Neighborhoods
Watch Sincere Engineer Play “Trust Me” in Mokena, Illinois for “Neighborhoods”
Deanna Belos gives us an energetic acoustic performance of her recent single in Northeastern Illinois.
January 19, 2021
The Lasso Details His New Album “2121,” Shares a Video for the Future-Looking Title Track
Namir Blade, Fat Tony, and Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring will appear on the record, out February 19 via Mello Music Group.
January 19, 2021
Pansy Announces Her Self-Titled Debut Album with the Sunny Single “Woman of Ur Dreams”
The record will arrive later in 2021 via Earth Libraries.
January 18, 2021
Playlist
Buck Meek Shares a Playlist of His Friends’ Music That Inspired “Two Saviors”
With his latest collection of solo recordings out now, the Big Thief guitarist shares 12 tracks that remind him that “every song is a prayer.”
January 15, 2021
Track by Track
Charlie Steen Details Each Track on Shame’s Rousing New LP “Drunk Tank Pink”
The lyricist walks us through the post-punk band’s second album, out now via Dead Oceans.
January 15, 2021
Film + TV
Animal Collective Scored a Documentary About SoundCloud Rappers, Weed, and “the End of the World”
Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s “Crestone” is out on PVOD February 16, with Domino releasing the score February 19.
January 14, 2021
Alivenique Foreshadows Her New Meta-Pop Project with “Tune in [Prelude]”
Ali Beletic’s breaks in her new moniker with a single via Lightning Records.
January 14, 2021
Film + TV
Life After Cancellation: “Party Down”
Remembering Starz’s take on the ensemble workplace comedy, which only lasted twenty episodes.
January 12, 2021
Jeremy Earl and Glenn Donaldson Announce New LP as Painted Shrines, Share First Single “Gone”
The co-founders of Woods and The Skygreen Leopards, respectively, will release “Heaven and Holy” on March 5 via Woodsist.
January 12, 2021
Mush Sleepwalk Into Disaster on Their New Single “Seven Trumpets”
The track arrives ahead of “Lines Redacted,” due out February 12 via Memphis Industries.
January 12, 2021
Track by Track
Cheekface Walk Us Through Their New Album “Emphatically No.”
The talky LA rockers’ sophomore album arrives today via New Professor.
January 11, 2021
