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.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Preoccupations, Ill at Ease
The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.
Provoker, Mausoleum
Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.
Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.
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Ducks Ltd. Embrace the Abyss on Loosie “Sheets of Grey”
The single was recorded during the jangle-pop duo’s “Modern Fiction” sessions.
January 27, 2022
Track by Track
Speedy Ortiz Take Us Through The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker ...Forever Track by Track
With the reissue of these early solo recordings seeing a vinyl release this Friday, Sadie Dupuis walks us through each of the 22 tracks’ origins.
January 26, 2022
MJ Lenderman Reopens the Michael Jordan Flu Game Case on “Hangover Game”
The Wednesday guitarist’s latest solo release, “Boat Songs,” arrives April 29 via Dear Life Records.
January 25, 2022
Track by Track
Anxious Walk Us Through Their Anxiety-Riddled Punk LP Little Green House
The Connecticut-based five-piece’s new album is out now via Run for Cover Records.
January 21, 2022
Vitesse X Announces Debut LP “Us Ephemeral,” Shares Video for Title Track
The artist returns to her hometown of New Paltz, NY for the visual for the first single from the LP out March 25 via 100% Electronica.
January 13, 2022
Chastity Struggle to Be Alone in Their “When You Go Home I Withdrawal” Video
Brandon Williams’ first LP for Deathwish arrives this Friday.
January 13, 2022
Sooner Detail New LP “Days and Nights,” Share First Single “Boscobel”
The Brooklyn-based dream pop collective riff on black metal with the first single from their Good Eye Records debut, out March 25.
January 11, 2022
Particle Kid Teams Up with J Mascis and Sunny War on New Track “Someone Else’s Dream”
Micah Nelson also reveals plans for his third LP, “TIME CAPSULE,” with its April 22 release date coinciding with a spring tour opening for The Flaming Lips.
January 11, 2022
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 Tracks from November & December 2021 You Should Know
The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
January 10, 2022
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 Albums from 2021 You Should Know
The year’s most discourse-worthy LPs, according to our Senior Editor.
January 03, 2022
The Most Interesting Full-Album Collaborations of 2021
Whether the product of quarantine-induced boredom or not, here are 10 of the most intriguing full-length collaborative LPs we heard this year.
December 30, 2021
The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart Teams Up with the Late Lee “Scratch” Perry on “Alpha”
The single, also featuring Peter Harris and Adrian Sherwood, will benefit Jamaica’s Alpha Institute through the end of January.
December 15, 2021
Sole Processes Parenting During the Pandemic on New Cut with DJ Pain 1 “Surrounded”
The duo’s new album “Post American Studies” drops February 4.
December 13, 2021
Earl Sweatshirt Announces New Album “SICK,” Shares Single feat. Armand Hammer
“Tabula Rasa” arrives ahead of the record’s January 14 release date.
December 10, 2021
Bears in Trees Show Us What a Good Cup of Joe Can Sound Like in “Heaven Sent Is a Coffee Cup” Video
The South London band’s album “everybody else smiled back” is out now via Counter Intuitive Records.
December 09, 2021
Baby FuzZ Struggles to Avoid a Wreck in “We’re All Gonna Die!!!” Video
Brandon Lowry’s LP “Welcome to the Future (Season 1)” is out now via Take This to Heart Records.
December 07, 2021
There’s a New Hymie’s Basement Track
“Phantom Throb” is the first single from WHY?’s Yoni Wolf and Fog’s Andrew Broder since their self-titled LP from 2003.
December 03, 2021
Ceschi Reminds Us We’re Still Deep in the Pandemic in the Video for His Sprawling Single “2020 BC”
The track was featured on the rapper/songwriter’s surprise-released acoustic album from last month.
December 01, 2021
Track by Track
Ovlov Give Us a Digression-Prone Breakdown of Each Track on Their Third LP “Buds”
The cult rockers’ first album since 2018’s “TRU” is out now via Exploding in Sound.
November 19, 2021
Hear an Early Stream of Televangelist’s Eerie New LP “Daydream Abraxas”
The mostly instrumental LP—incorporating influences ranging from Arca to The Locust, Bosch to the Challenger disaster—officially drops this Friday.
November 16, 2021
