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.
Soccer Mommy, Evergreen
Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.
Better Lovers, Highly Irresponsible
The breathless riffs, ferocious pace, and veteran sense of security that define this debut album from the metalcore supergroup feel like the work of a band desperate to escape their history.
Kevin Ayers, All This Crazy Gift of Time: The Recordings 1969-1973
Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.
Will Schube
Do not get Thom Yorke started.
Both tracks will appear on Chaz Bear’s Hole Erth, which is set to arrive on September 6 via Dead Oceans.
The Armand Hammer member’s new album will arrive on October 11 via Fat Possum.
The track originally appeared on the Japanese edition of the Big Thief vocalist’s LP from earlier this year.
The Charlotte emcee and MAVI collaborator walks us through the freestyles and narrative-driven opuses of his latest project.
The conceptual new project from Yoni Wolf is out now via Waterlines.
His new LP, Album of the Year #1 Funkateer, will arrive on October 25.
The LP features Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, and Buzzy Lee.
The epic, eight-minute “Greyhound” lands ahead of the band’s self-titled record, which is set to be released on September 13.
Sophie Allison’s sixth album will arrive on October 25 via Loma Vista.
Lindsey Jordan recorded the song for I Saw the TV Glow.
Greatish Hits will arrive on August 16 via Sub Pop.
No Name has been randomly appearing in shoppers’ bags at Third Man Records over the past week.
The producer’s new album will arrive on September 20 via Young.
The song marks the songwriter’s first new recording in seven years.
The duo’s newly announced album Planet Pearl will arrive via Stones Throw on September 20.
Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore share how their first album in eight years is a celebration of the project’s history—and an optimistic look at their future.
The Canadian art-punk collective talk balancing “juvenile delinquency with a sense of mature introspection” on their third record, out now via Jagjaguwar.
The new project from Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Icky Reels will arrive on October 16.
The event is scheduled for July 26 in the East Village.