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.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard, Neptunes
Each track on the electronic composer and Hot Chip leader’s debut EP together has a unique rhythmic texture, with the constant theme being a wall of bass that transports you to a celestial space.
New Order, Brotherhood [Definitive Edition]
With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Josh Tillman focuses his lens on death on his darkly comedic sixth album as eclectic instrumentation continues to buttress his folky chamber pop beyond ’70s pastiche.
Will Schube
The new album from songwriter João Rocha is out September 1 via Innovative Leisure.
Originally formed as a cathartic escape for three former child actors, Jadagrace, SWIM, and TJOnline talk making the kind of music they want to hear.
Ryan and K Hover discuss the deluxe version of their cult-classic record, expectations, and looking back on the LP 10 years on.
The song is featured in the forthcoming film Heart of Stone, which is out on August 11.
The band has also announced a Queens Colosseum pre-show event in Toronto on August 4.
The duo’s album is finally seeing the light of day with an August 25 release via Lex Records.
The Chicago post-hardcore icons’ run of dates kicks off August 9 in Indianapolis with Upper Wilds.
The project will arrive on October 20 via Ninja Tune/Counter Records.
billy woods and ELUCID’s new album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is out on September 29 via Fat Possum Records.
The limited-edition release arrives ahead of Thundercat’s In Yo Girl’s City tour.
The band’s new album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is out on August 11.
The tribute album A Song For Leon is out September 8 via Primary Wave Music.
Produced by Cate Le Bon, the LP marks their first work with an outside collaborator since 2007’s Sky Blue Sky.
The LA-based producer’s new album Gravity will arrive on September 8 via Friends of Friends.
Inspired in part by heartbreak and a move from Ontario to LA, the alt-R&B artist’s fourth album is out now via Hyperdub.
The book will be released on Questlove’s new Macmillan imprint, AUWA Books.
Sophie Allison is playing at Forest Hills Stadium in New York tonight with Maggie Rogers.
The NYC-based songwriter’s fourth album uses little moments of heartbreak for propulsion, with this momentum giving the album its sturdy bones.
The band’s follow-up to last year’s Time Skiffs will arrive on September 29 via Domino Records.
The band’s new album Mommy will arrive on August 25.