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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Mischa Pearlman
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.
These 15 covers of R&B and soul classics are treated with both the reverence they deserve on their own terms, and with which Springsteen also clearly holds for them.
Alex Magnan breaks down each track on the NYC-based trio’s latest, out now via Equal Vision.
This self-titled fifth album is the sound of Jim Ward both finding and re-finding himself, his heritage and future coalescing with mostly youthful ebullience.
The 11 songs that comprise the French experimental post-hardcore trio’s third album are magnified reflections of the grotesqueries of modern life and society.
Ahead of their headlining set at Austin’s Levitation Fest this weekend, Jim Reid reflects on 40 years of the Scottish band’s existence, and shares what may lie ahead.
A mix of punk, post-hardcore, grunge, and pop, the Baltimore trio’s debut is a stunning burst of influences and experiences coalescing in a swirling swathe of anger and injustice.
Eric Bachmann takes us deeper into the band’s first LP since 1998, out now via Merge.
The Massachusetts punks’ new album Dancer arrives November 4 via Pure Noise.
On her label debut, Corrinne James is still laying her vulnerabilities on the line in what sounds like the most intimate setting.
Geoff Rickly shares how the continuation of what looked like a one-off side-project allowed him to scratch an itch left untouched by the recent Thursday reunion.
This sophomore solo LP is an exhilarating ride with some moments of magic, but one that never quite reaches the inimitable heights that Dillinger Escape Plan offered.
The Circa Survive vocalist’s latest solo release sees him turn all his pained experience and existential torment into a gorgeous soundtrack to pure, distilled feeling.
There’s a real darkness holding the quiet hush of the Brooklyn-based duo’s debut full-length together, which reveals a deep pain and trauma if you pay attention.