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.
The Cure, Songs of a Lost World
The lyrical doom and gloom that matches the music’s slowed, metallic, ethereal ambience on the band’s first record in 16 years focuses very pointedly on true death.
Planes Mistaken for Stars, Do You Still Love Me?
The Colorado heavy rockers’ fifth and final record exhibits their broadest sense of appeal, ranging from aggressive noise rock to catchy post-hardcore hooks.
Leaving Time, Angel in the Sand
At various turns haunting, alluring, catchy, and confident, the Jacksonville shoegazers’ well-considered debut introduces the band with aplomb.
Nick Fulton
Juan Wauters recalls his immigration from Uruguay to Queens, which he commemorates on his recent LP “Introducing Juan Pablo.”
Despite cultural shifts in the eight years since their last album, their newest suggests the garage rock trio doesn’t need to change a bit.
He’s a perfume connoisseur on the side.
The husband-and-wife folk-rock duo detail the band’s new album, “Kinship,” and music’s role in the age of climate activism.
The D.C. band opened up about national identity, Thomas Frank, and Bowie’s Berlin trilogy.