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.
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.
Jon McKiel, Hex
Taking cues from dusty hip-hop beat tapes and ’60s psychedelia, the New Brunswick artist’s fourth album is full of understated hooks that crawl across your brain like a vine.
Samantha Sullivan
The Philadelphia-based group’s latest album Life on the Lawn arrives March 29 via Crafted Sounds.
A sharp departure from the offbeat folk and whimsical acoustics that defined last year’s debut full-length, the duo’s new EP experiments with electronic sounds and early-internet aesthetics.
With their proper debut, Kevin Krauter and Nina Pitchkites keep it short and sweet as they soundtrack themes of contemporary loneliness with the influences of MBV and The Sundays.
With the cult Boston shoegazers returning with their first album in 30 years this week, we asked nine current artists to detail what Delaware has meant to them over the years.
The dream-pop trio celebrates the precarity and preciousness of life with delicate and airy sounds on their first record in nine years.
On her debut, Addie Warncke synthesizes the data and digits of the deep web to make swirling shoegaze flush with emo influences.
On his self-titled third album, Max Clarke blatantly rejects modernity in favor of tradition as he opts for ’60s-era starry-eyed ballads and swooning soft rock.
The art-rock duo turn burnout into playful yet sharp post-punk riffs on their sophomore record.
On their debut album, the Manchester-formed industrial noise outfit manages to come across as angelic and avant-garde all at once with such suaveness it makes your head spin.
The Brooklyn-based art-punk sextet reinvent themselves while crafting their own creation myth on their sophomore album.