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.
Bonnie “Prince” Billy, The Purple Bird
Created in tribute to his friendship with producer Dave Ferguson, the youthful energy they channel together works well for a no-frills country record that gets so much done with so little.
Kathryn Mohr, Waiting Room
Constricting yet chillingly spacious, the atmosphere of this debut is guided by the achingly human tremble in Mohr’s voice and the tangible weariness of her minimal use of guitar and synth.
Pink Siifu, Black’!Antique
On his sprawling fourth solo release, the rapper, producer, and post-soul provocateur—along with his coterie of collaborators—achieves something both memorably melodic and weirdly wired.
Zachary Weg
Damon McMahon talks staying authentic while protesting the old world order with Death Jokes, the songwriter’s first new album in six years.
Pianist and beatmaker Kiefer Shackelford shares how he finds beauty in music and reflects it in his own compositions.
Drummer Jack Bevan discusses the pure joy and spontaneous freedom that manifests on the group’s seventh album.
Sascha Ring discusses the journey leading up to the Berlin electronic trio’s first record in over half a decade.
The LA-based popsmith discusses how TikTok and his Haitian roots helped him create his own space amidst the teeming musical landscape.
The London-based songwriter discusses making the personal feel universal on his latest record, Don’t Forget to Look Up.