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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Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.
Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
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Playlist
Nobody Wants to Party with Us: a Playlist for a Socially Distanced Halloween
14 tracks from 2020 that sum up this skin-crawly year.
October 31, 2020
Track by Track
ELUCID and The Lasso Break Down Their Debut LP as Small Bills Track by Track
“Don’t Play It Straight” is out today, and features verses from Moor Mother, billy woods, Fielded, and more.
October 30, 2020
Playlist
Hear Tobacco’s Playlist for Devil’s Night
Tom Fec skips the clichés and gives us 85 minutes of sheer terror.
October 30, 2020
Looms Experience Clarity on Their New Single “Obvious”
The New York rockers continue to make the most of a confusing 2020 with their second single this year.
October 30, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: For Nothing’s Domenic Palermo, 2020’s Just Another Year
Palermo recounts his band’s history of misfortunate recording sessions, and sheds light on how “The Great Dismal”—named after a swamp—may be more optimistic than he’d hoped.
October 28, 2020
Souvenirs Share Subaquatic Video for “Feel Enough”
The track is from the Californian band’s new LP “Love for the Lack of It,” which dropped last Friday.
October 26, 2020
Track by Track
Skyway Man Breaks Down His Existential LP “The World Only Ends When You Die” Track By Track
The Oakland songwriter sheds some light on his complex new Americana rock opera.
October 22, 2020
Toledo Celebrate Creativity with Analog “Challenger” Video
The newly announced “Jockeys of Love” EP will be out January 29.
October 22, 2020
Rich Jones & Montana Macks Wonder “How do you sleep at night?” in New Single
It’s the title track from the Chicago duo’s new album, out next Friday.
October 22, 2020
Playlist
Homeboy Sandman’s Songs So Astonishing They Are Undeniable Proof of God
The East Coast rapper shares 12 musical cases supporting the existence of a higher being.
October 21, 2020
P.E. Announce New Covers Release, Share “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
“I Wanna Be Your Dog, Boy” pairs the Stooges cover with their take on the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”
October 21, 2020
Track by Track
Fielded Breaks Down Her Psychedelic LP “Demisexual Lovelace” Track by Track
The Brooklyn songwriter digs into the sex, love, and codependent tendencies that informed her new record.
October 19, 2020
Quinton Brock Shares Animated Lyric Video for “To the Moon”
The Brooklyn rocker’s genre-bending new single gets treated by animator Durnis Markov.
October 19, 2020
Small Black Envision a “Wonky, Off-Brand Version of Heaven” in “Tampa” Video
The Brooklyn chillwave forefathers’ new 7-inch drops November 13 via 100% Electronica.
October 16, 2020
Seba Kaapstad Want It All in the Video for Their New Track “Konke”
The South African four-piece share the self-titled track from their latest album, out November 13 via Mello Music Group.
October 15, 2020
Growing Concerns Poetry Collective Prepare for the Revolution in “Come to Me Open” Video
The single will appear on the Chicago hip-hop trio’s LP “BIG DARK BRIGHT FUTURES,” which drops this Friday.
October 14, 2020
Reviews
HEALTH, “DISCO 4 :: PART I”
If there’s a thesis to this comp’s audio nihilism it’s that artists like Soccer Mommy and Full of Hell can peacefully coexist.
October 13, 2020
Liam Bailey Shares a Live Video for “Don’t Blame NY” Filmed at NY’s Diamond Mine Studios
The UK songwriter brings the “Ekundayo” track to life.
October 09, 2020
Playlist
Jeremy Bolm of Touché Amoré’s Favorite Guest Vocalist Appearances
After Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull appeared on the band’s single “Limelight,” Bolm shares some tracks that inspired the collaboration.
October 08, 2020
Palberta’s Nina Ryser Shares “Shelf the Trophy,” a Song About “Being a Big Baby”
Ahead of the NYC trio’s 2021 LP, Ryser’s solo venture “Paths of Color” arrives October 22 via Cowgirl Records.
October 08, 2020
