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.
Babehoven, Water’s Here in You
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert’s second LP of lush indie-folk is warm and inviting as ever, though the album’s impressionistic storytelling tends to keep the listener at arm’s length.
Maria Chiara Argirò, Closer
The London-based art-pop composer shifts into more polished electronic club music territory on her third solo LP as we hear her wrestle with a sense of connection.
METZ, Up on Gravity Hill
The Toronto noise-punks’ fifth LP sees their familiarly angular guitars working through melodies that range from ear-sweetening to atonal, furthering the mystery that is the band METZ.
Nedelle Torrisi
Nedelle hooks up with YACHT’s Claire L. Evans and Jona Bechtolt to talk artistic—and romantic—collaboration.
This week: being attracted to your ideological opposite and sharing a bed with your flatmate.
This week: falling in love with your best friend and navigating an accidental one-night stand.
This week: fighting the depression that comes with the end of a relationship and how to tell whether all a guy wants is sex.
Nedelle tackles sexting—with a little help from Nick Diamonds of Islands and The Unicorns.
This week: confronting same-sex attraction and what to do if your boyfriend won’t let you see his phone.
This week: making out with your cousin’s boyfriend and learning how to fall in love.
This week: how to cope with deciding not to date, and forming platonic relationships.
This week: Meeting new people, getting back into the dating game, and a few bonus recommendations.
This week: avoiding the friend zone, a new lover’s obnoxious tics, and a younger man.
This week: A very special video edition of our bi-weekly advice column.
This week: Mending a long-term relationship, contacting an ex that bailed, and keeping secrets with a new partner.
This week: ASSes, jealousy in the beginning of a relationship, and taking the leap to asking your crush out.
This week: going above-and-beyond in the Internet age, getting blindsided by your “soul mate,” and starting a relationship with short-term barriers.
This week: misreading the signs, mixed messages, and overcoming personality differences.
This week: being haunted by your significant other’s romantic past, dating someone who’s frequently on the road, and should you stay or should you go?
This week: learning how to live with your parents again, crafting the best online dating profile, and weighing the pros and cons of “the rebound.”
This week: reconnecting with the past, a new love interest with past hang-ups, plus of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes weighs in on long-distance relationships.
This week: how open should you be at the very beginning of a relationship, getting strung along by someone who just might not be that into you, and what to do when your brand-new love interest recently got laid off.