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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Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.
Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.
BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
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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
Hello, I’m Sorry Disconnect From Themselves on the Jangly “I Don’t Know You”
The track arrives ahead of the February 28 release of the Seattle band’s “Buddy” LP via Slang Church.
January 08, 2021
America Part Two Confront the Predatory Gaze in “I Don’t Wanna” Video
The New Jersey punks are also announcing a new album, “Price of a Nation,” out March 12 via Revival Recordings.
January 07, 2021
Alice Glass Teases Debut Album with “Suffer and Swallow” Single and Video
With no release date yet, the electro-industrial songwriter’s long-anticipated debut may still be imminent.
January 06, 2021
Hear Lupe Fiasco, Open Mike Eagle, and Joseph Chilliams’ Freestyle Tributes to MF DOOM
Raps inspired by the late emcee have been pouring in since it was revealed that the underground legend passed away in late 2020.
January 05, 2021
Neighborhoods
Watch Jenny Owen Youngs Cover Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” in Maine for “Neighborhoods”
The songwriter celebrates a recent move to the East Coast by performing the track in the town of Kittery.
January 05, 2021
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 Tracks from December 2020 You Should Know
The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
January 04, 2021
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 More Tracks from 2020 You Should Know
Our Senior Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few months.
December 22, 2020
Neighborhoods
Watch Shamir Play “Diet” in Front of His House in Philadelphia for “Neighborhoods”
The track is from the songwriter’s self-titled record, released back in October.
December 15, 2020
Taking Meds’ New “Unplug” Video Lands Somewhere Between “The Hurt Locker” and “Blair Witch”
The song comes from the East Coast punks’ “The Meds You Deserve” EP released earlier this year.
December 14, 2020
