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.
Porches, Shirt
Despite the antics that often undercut it, this sixth record is the most expansive, dense project that the ever-unknowable Aaron Maine has ever put together.
julie, My Anti-Aircraft Friend
On their debut album, the LA trio prove they’ve done their homework when it comes to pulling ’90s shoegaze influences as they create blissed-out sounds to complement lyrics about growing up during COVID lockdown.
Enumclaw, Home in Another Life
The 11 rock-out earworms chronicling depression and anxiety on the Tacoma-based group’s second LP are well worth the headache.
Mischa Pearlman
Former Cymbals Eat Guitars vocalist Joseph D’Agostino’s second album with the project arrives November 3 via Get Better Records (and Tough Love Recs in the UK).
Charlotte McCaslin goes deep on a record about coming to terms with being a living thing in a dying world.
Exasperation drummer Dave Mead’s debut solo LP Speaking Terms will arrive October 10.
Murray Macleod takes us track by track through the Brighton punks’ journey of self-rediscovery, which is out now via UNFD.
The Boston-based quartet’s debut album I Think About It All the Time lands October 13 via Equal Vision Records.
On their first record in 11 years, the Swedish garage-rock revivalists have as much gusto, energy, and attitude as they did on their 1997 debut.
Takiaya Reed discusses how the joy of creation adds a personal layer to the anti-colonialist drone-metal project’s mission statement.
The track arrives ahead of the Melbourne punks’ fifth LP Endless, out October 20 via Fat Wreck Chords.
The track was recorded during the same sessions as last year’s White Tiger LP.
Christopher Pappas’ new collection of songs How Do I Feel? arrives September 1 via Little Record Company.
Executed with precision and grace, the group’s first release in over a decade blends the darkly political with the profoundly personal.
Ian Shelton discusses the various roads which led to the LA punks’ debut LP, Life Under the Gun.
The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.
The Canadian noise-punks’ fourth record is out now via Dine Alone Records.
The duo’s second album Bound to Be will arrive June 23.
Ceschi Ramos, Get Dead’s Sam King, and NOFX’s Fat Mike discuss their debut album This Is Crime Wave, which draws from their own experiences in the criminal justice system—and a sitcom-like housing situation.
The Santa Barbara by way of Philly songwriter takes us through his “post-apocalyptic Americana” opus track by track.
On his sophomore solo LP, the former Exitmusic member ponders the highs and lows of existence through somber, gravelly vocals.
With their new album Ten Stories High out today, the band also shares some of their biggest influences on the recording.
The Pittsburgh politipunks’ 13th studio album is a culmination of everything they’ve been singing about since forming back in the late-’80s.