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.
Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.
Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible
The breathless riffs, ferocious pace, and veteran sense of security that define this debut album from the metalcore supergroup feel like the work of a band desperate to escape their history.
Kevin Ayers, All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973
Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.
Mike Spry
Peter Anspach and Rick Mitarotonda discuss the band’s new album Dripfield, staying level-headed, and their official take on jam bands.
Reflections on the latest installment of Wilco’s weekend festival in North Adams, Massachusetts—and a few that preceded it.
The Colorado-based group’s album is out now via Die Jim Crow Records, a non-profit record label for formerly and currently incarcerated musicians.
Jim James, Carl Broemel, and Bo Koster discuss releasing their new self-titled album in a post-band world for our latest digital cover story.
Saying goodbye to the Silver Jew, David Berman.
On lost love, recovery, and music at Solid Sound 2019.
The celebrated indie auteur looks to make her mark in television on Mark and Jay Duplass’s HBO anthology series.
Halfway through the show’s final season, the HBO show’s co-creator reflects on what it all means.
It didn’t just help define a band: It formed how a generation would abandon singularity for fusion. A quarter-century after its release, we can trace our cultural evolution to the Beastie Boys’ third record.
Season five of FX’s Cold War drama has arrived at an…interesting…time in contemporary Russian/American relations. But some themes are universal.
The comic, actor, and podcaster explores life after infidelity in his new HBO series.
The stand-up comedian talks about the possibilities for comedy under the new administration ahead of her appearance at Riot LA.
“My generation was not tainted by the fantasy of Leia, but rather encouraged to aspire to the love of women like her.”
The Showtime drama, which was just renewed for an eighth season, offers a brutally humanizing portrayal of lower-class American life.
Chris Hardwick and Marc Maron approach the entertainment industry in wildly different ways. But both help us to escape the culture of the soundbite.
Following the announcement of lead singer Gord Downie’s terminal cancer diagnosis, Mike Spry explains how The Tragically Hip speak to the Canadian soul.
Will Oldham talks about his new album, which compiles material from three Peel Sessions recorded decades ago.