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.
Full of Hell, Coagulated Bliss
The shapeshifting grindcore collective continue to find new brutal horizons to explore on their expansive yet focused first non-collaborative LP in three years.
Broadcast, Spell Blanket – Collected Demos 2006-2009
The first of two sets of hazy, unfinished recordings from the cult experimental pop band expected this year explores numerous sonic worlds within its lo-fi, homespun arrangements.
The Lemon Twigs, A Dream Is All We Know
The brotherly bubblegum duo continues to channel vintage pop figures ranging from Brian Wilson to Todd Rundgren on their fifth album of exquisite harmonies and contagious melodies.
Natalie Marlin
The shapeshifting grindcore collective continue to find new brutal horizons to explore on their expansive yet focused first non-collaborative LP in three years.
The Manchester quartet’s most consistent record in years pairs themes of the eternal uphill climb of inhumane capitalism with the band’s own creative ascent.
The songwriter discusses finding beauty in “cringe,” the influence of dreams, and sharing the catharsis of their new album in a live setting ahead of their performance at The Fonda this weekend in LA.
Lætitia Tamko uses her third LP to process all of the mournfulness and ecstasy, excess and ennui of the past four years using the sounds she found in her escapes to nightclubs to cope.
Rosenstock’s fifth album carries the weight of all the global erosion he’s always sung about while providing a captivating new glimpse into how his songwriting may continue to mature.
Animal Collective’s Dave Portner shares how drone music, meditation, and community fed into 7s, one of his most human solo releases to date.
Alloysious Massaquoi discusses recapturing youth and breaking new ground on the band’s fourth LP.