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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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.
Skegss, Top Heavy
Clashing with expectations, the rowdy Australian duo dive into an older, deeper, more refined sound with this EP that positions them as stronger musicians and storytellers.
Mister Romantic, What’s Not to Love?
John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.
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Injury Reserve, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”
The amorphous second album from the rap group focuses on unease-ambient soundscapes that swallow the vocals into the soundtrack.
September 15, 2021
Playlist
20 Songs You Can Find Bad Bad Hats Walking To
With her band’s latest LP “Walkman” dropping this week, Kerry Alexander shares a playlist fit for your portable music player.
September 13, 2021
Track by Track
Slothrust Break Down Their Spiritual New LP “Parallel Timeline” Track by Track
Leah Wellbaum’s latest album is out now via Dangerbird Records.
September 10, 2021
Track by Track
Molly Drag Walks Us Through His Stripped-Back New Album “Resemble Another”
Michael Hansford’s latest slowcore LP is out now through Terrible Records.
September 10, 2021
Playlist
Stream Amyl and The Sniffers’ “Random Shit We Like Cause No One Knows How to Follow Basic Instructions” Playlist
With “Comfort to Me” out this week, the Australian group shared some songs that, yeah, have very little to do with that.
September 09, 2021
Ehiorobo Is All About That Cheese on “Munstar”
The genre-bending New Jersey artist touches on hustle culture in his latest single for Grind Select.
September 09, 2021
LNDFK and Pink Siifu Get Dissociative on New Single “How Do We Know We’re Alive”
Following her recent single with Chester Watson, the Italian-Tunisian artist continues to tease her debut album.
September 09, 2021
Watch Guided by Voices’ Channel-Surfing Video for New Single “Dance of Gurus”
The group’s latest LP, “It’s Not Them. It Can’t Be Them. It Is Them!,” arrives October 22.
September 08, 2021
Super American Celebrate Ego Death in the Video for New Single “RIP JEFF”
Matt Cox and Patrick Feeley kill off their ego, Jeff, in the latest single from the pair’s forthcoming LP “SUP,” expected out October 22 via Wax Bodega.
September 08, 2021
Claire Cronin Has an Out-of-Body Experience on the Title Track to Her Forthcoming LP “Bloodless”
“Bloodless” arrives November 12 via Orindal Records.
September 07, 2021
Oberhofer on What “What Does It Mean to Me?” Means to Him
Along with debuting a new video for the track, Brad Oberhofer dives into his new philosophies which inspired the single.
September 03, 2021
Playlist
Spirits Having Fun Share a Playlist of Their Favorite Indie Rock Tracks by Jazz Kids
With the band’s “Two” dropping today, Andrew Clinkman introduces us to our new favorite microgenre.
September 03, 2021
Track by Track
Meatbodies Walk Us Through Their Tripped-Out Vision for “333”
Chad Ubovich supplies commentary on each track on the band’s third record, out now via In the Red.
September 03, 2021
Just Friends Take in the Sunshine in Their Video for “Sunflower”
The Bay Area collective shares a visual for one of the tracks on their newly released EP “JF CREW VOL 3.”
September 02, 2021
Signal Boost
Signal Boost: 15 Tracks from August 2021 You Should Know
The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.
September 01, 2021
Robin Hatch Announces New LP “T.O.N.T.O.” with the Tropicalia-Inspired “Brazil”
The Toronto-based composer readies a full album recorded with the behemoth synthesizer made famous by Stevie Wonder.
September 01, 2021
Calicoco Yearns for a New Housing Arrangement on “I Hate Living with Me”
NY-based multi-instrumentalist Giana Caliolo’s new album “Underneath” arrives this Friday.
August 30, 2021
Playlist
Water From Your Eyes Made Us an Acrostic Playlist Based on Their Name
With their new album “Structure” out now, Nate Amos shared some important tracks whose first letters spell out his band’s name.
August 27, 2021
Casper Skulls Announce New Album “Knows No Kindness,” Share Video for “Thesis”
The Toronto band’s second album arrives November 12 via Next Door Records.
August 26, 2021
Maxshh Announces New Album “Bonus Flowers,” Shares First Single “The Stone and I and Everybody”
The Tundrastomper and Fred Cracklin member’s new solo release will arrive September 24 via Exploding in Sound.
August 25, 2021
