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.
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.
Drahla, Angeltape
Their sophomore album sees the Leeds-based trio overcoming grief over instrumental flourishes that recall yesteryear while artfully resisting the lure of entering a time machine.
Chanel Beads, Your Day Will Come
Shane Lavers captures the awe and unease of humanity’s impermanence on his debut album of dissociative dream pop.
Rob Duguay
The band also unveils a video for new single “Interval” ahead of the release of the album on August 20.
The London-based four-piece’s third album drops this Friday via Dirty Hit.
Auerbach discusses his production work at his studio, Easy Eye Sound, as well as The Black Keys’ forthcoming LP “Delta Kream.”
The Edmonton-reared rapper discusses his fifth album and recent collaborations.
The System of a Down frontman discusses the making of the EP, the Armenian conflict, and the future of his band.
Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler dive into the personal background and changing sound on the duo’s fourth LP.
The shock-rock trailblazer discusses his first top-selling record in nearly 50 years.