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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Will Schube
On the guest-heavy, low-stakes sequel to his 2012 breakout mixtape, the LA-via-Miami rapper is fully engaged as he cruises with his fastball and best 12-6 curve from beginning to end.
The group led by Stephen Malkmus will release their debut album in October via Matador.
The cut features backing vocals from Katy Kirby.
His debut album The New Sound will arrive on October 4 via Rough Trade.
The Office Culture member’s new album will arrive on November 1.
The song was one of many standout cuts from the pop star’s Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.
The recording was credited to his late-’00s group with Kanye West and Pharrell, Child Rebel Soldier.
The late British rocker’s ashes will remain in Nottingham until next August.
The track was produced by Danger Mouse and SAULT’s Inflo.
For Every Set of Eyes is set to arrive on August 23 via Holy Family.
The duo’s new project will arrive on October 18.
The group’s new LP—presumably for, inspired by, and/or about us—will be released on September 20 via Psychic Hotline.
The group’s new album is set to arrive in October via Epitaph.
The boygenius member and solo artist will be performing multiple nights in each city she visits.
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.