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.
Dehd, Poetry
The Chicago indie-pop trio continue to evolve their sound as well as their message, with the songs on their fifth album taking the form of anthems of acceptance.
Arab Strap, I’m totally fine with it 👍 don’t give a fuck anymore 👍
The Scottish duo gives our global village a fitting pre-apocalyptic soundtrack on their eighth album as they balance misanthropic lyrics with breezy, danceable synth-rock.
Jessica Pratt, Here in the Pitch
The LA-based indie-folk songwriter’s ghostly yet elegant fourth album is all smoke and light work—like the best noirs of the ’40s and ’50s if they were filmed in the druggy late-’60s.
Taylor Ruckle
Their album Omniscient Cloud Cover comes out September 30 on Bob Nastanovich’s Brokers Tip Records.
Skye Holden offers a track-by-track breakdown of the album alongside an early stream of the full project.
The Chicago post-punks also answer a few Qs about their upcoming EP Nothing You Do Matters and working with Andrew.
The Winnipeg groups’ debut record 10/10 arrives September 9 via Midwest Debris.
Along with debuting a new visual for “Silent Waters,” Rachel Gordon breaks down the Philly hardcore group’s new album, out now via Quiet year.
The songwriter and filmmaker’s third album Catch the Light arrives June 17.
The beats on Florence Welch’s fifth album are more physical than ever, and the lyrics are darkly comic—all in service to that thrilling feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife.
Moaning bassist Pascal Stevenson’s debut solo record Scrutiny arrives June 17 via Felte.
The debut LP from the Hamilton, Ontario trio balances soaring guitars, soft atmospherics, and complicated spirituality.
A video for the track arrives ahead of the Pittsburgh group’s sophomore album, out June 3 via Crafted Sounds.
The Montana-based chiptune experimentalists’ debut LP Psychokinetic Love Songs is out April 29.
This reissue of the band’s final and least-praised record benefits most from the restored track order as intended by producer Nigel Godrich.
Shelby Dillon’s visual for the Falling in Love Is Not That Hard single arrives ahead of tonight’s album release show at The Hideout in Chicago.
While it doesn’t always live up to its most groundbreaking forebears, this sort-of posthumous release often succeeds in its own right.
The Chris Farren–directed visual announces Elise Okusami’s new album Nothing’s Ever Fine, which arrives April 8 via Polyvinyl.
The London-based indie rockers’ latest EP is an anti-formalist return to form.
The latest single from “Galactic Africa” pushes back on neo-colonialism in energetic Afrobeat fashion.
Kennedy Freeman shares the first of two full-band singles already planned for 2022.
The track arrives ahead of the “Jagged Little Pill” cast member’s debut album, “My Bed.”
The Québec-based songwriter celebrates the richness of her culture and the healing she’s achieved through transmitting it on her latest release.