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.
Chuck Strangers, A Forsaken Lover’s Plea
Chronicling both his upbringing in Brooklyn and a dissolved romance, the Pro Era veteran’s second full-length is an exercise in refined melancholy.
Tierra Whack, World Wide Whack
The celebrated Philadelphia rapper’s debut full-length is made up of masterpieces in miniature—two- to three-minute songs intimate in their scope and spare in their production.
Kacey Musgraves, Deeper Well
The pop-country superstar leans into her homespun folk roots with mournful grace and the tiniest teardrop of tenderness, though the result is oddly lofty and often trite.
Taylor Ysteboe
Matt Saincome, Bill Conway, + Krissy Howard on the satirical history of their satirical punk news site.
Using “The Wizard of Oz” as a map, the DIY punks explore uncharted territory on “Cosmic Thrill Seekers.”
Stefan Babcock and Zack Mykula break down the dark messages behind “Morbid Stuff.”