Following the release of 2016’s acclaimed Strangers, Boston-based musician and fine artist Marissa Nadler returns with her eighth album For My Crimes. ... More
Album by Marissa Nadler
Following the release of 2016’s acclaimed Strangers, Boston-based musician and fine artist Marissa Nadler returns with her eighth album For My Crimes. Featuring cameos by Angel Olsen and Sharon Van Etten, the album stares down the dark realization that love may not be enough to keep two people together through distance and differing needs. Despite having demoed more songs than she needed, Nadler wrote many of the album’s singles in a flurry of creativity a week before recording in Laurel Canyon, California. The result is some of the most indelible music of Nadler’s career. (Sacred Bones & Bella Union)
›› ISSUE Feature: Live Performance & Interview with Marissa Nadler
Lala Lala—the Chicago-based project of London-born musician Lillie West— releases her new album The Lamb. Named a ‘Band to Watch’ by Stereogum, Lala Lala started as ... More
Album by Lala Lala
Lala Lala—the Chicago-based project of London-born musician Lillie West— releases her new album The Lamb. Named a ‘Band to Watch’ by Stereogum, Lala Lala started as an outlet through which West could process her new experiences at art school and in LA and Chicago’s DIY music communities. On The Lamb, her second LP, West illustrates a nuanced look at her own adulthood—her fraught insecurity, struggles with addiction and the loss of several people close to her. (Hardly Art)
Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance Film Festival, Monsters and Men is the debut feature-length from ... More
Film by Reinaldo Marcus Green
Winner of the Special Jury Prize for Outstanding First Feature at Sundance Film Festival, Monsters and Men is the debut feature-length from writer and director Reinaldo Marcus Green. In this chilling portrait of race, family and consequence, a young father witnesses the police shooting of an unarmed black man—pushing the the tight-knit community of Bed-Stuy to the brink. (NEON)
Australia’s foremost maverick poet Peter Bibby returns with new album Grand Champion, out via Spinning Top Records (Pond, Tame Impala). The video ... More
Album by Peter Bibby
Australia’s foremost maverick poet Peter Bibby returns with new album Grand Champion, out via Spinning Top Records (Pond, Tame Impala). The video for the album’s third single, “Long Baby,” was filmed on a property way out in Western Australia, and depicts an ill-fated love story between two cockatoos. The result is what Bibby describes as “My weirdest video to date,” but the album itself paints a deliciously perturbing picture of Australian shambolic chic. (Spinning Top/Caroline)
Recently signed to RCA Records, Winnetka Bowling League deliver finely tuned guitar pop bursting with cinematic California imagery on their debut self-titled EP. ... More
EP by Winnetka Bowling League
Recently signed to RCA Records, Winnetka Bowling League deliver finely tuned guitar pop bursting with cinematic California imagery on their debut self-titled EP. Displaying an impressive cornucopia of pop culture references, Winnetka Bowling League‘s first single “On The 5”—which premiered in the Los Angeles Times—captures dazzling sunshine and baked asphalt in a melancholy love song just made for freeways. (RCA)
Bushes & Succulents is Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Born in Brazil and based in Los ... More
Book by Mona Kuhn
Bushes & Succulents is Mona Kuhn’s artistic response to the ongoing currents in contemporary feminism. Born in Brazil and based in Los Angeles, Mona Kuhn uses traditional iconography and technical mastery to portray the complexities of human nature, both tempting and provoking our imagination. The images in Bushes & Succulents are a celebration of the female essence—confident, raw and elegant, yet confrontational and unapologetic. Kuhn’s use of solarisation processes reveal human imperfections, bringing to the surface a woman’s struggles, strengths and power. (Stanley/Barker)
›› ISSUE Feature: Interview with Mona Kuhn
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It explores the two most ... More
Film by Michael Moore
Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 11/9 is a provocative and comedic look at the times in which we live. It explores the two most important questions of the Trump Era: How the f**k did we get here, and how the f**k do we get out? It’s the film to see before it’s too late. (GathrFilms)
Mutual Benefit is the songwriting outlet for folk musician Jordan Lee, a crucial part of the Brooklyn, New York DIY scene. Following ... More
Album by Mutual Benefit
Mutual Benefit is the songwriting outlet for folk musician Jordan Lee, a crucial part of the Brooklyn, New York DIY scene. Following a pair of celebrated full-lengths, Love’s Crushing Diamond (2013) and Skip A Sinking Stone (2016), Mutual Benefit releases Thunder Follows The Light—a sublime folk album contemplating the ongoing destruction of the outer world and how it shapes the storms of our inner ones. (Transgressive Records)
›› ISSUE Feature: Live Performance & Interview with Mutual Benefit
Written and directed by Angie Wang in her directorial debut, MDMA is a semi-autobiographical crime drama that offers the unique perspective of a ... More
Film by Angie Wang
Written and directed by Angie Wang in her directorial debut, MDMA is a semi-autobiographical crime drama that offers the unique perspective of a working-class, Asian-American woman scrambling for status in a world of white, west-coast privilege. Starring Annie Q., Francesca Eastwood and Pierson Fodé, the film follows Angie as she starts her freshman year at a prestigious San Francisco university in 1984. The sudden jolt from hardship to privileged campus life proves to be a challenge, and when her financial aid is cut Angie uses her book and street smarts to synthesize the growing popular drug Ecstasy—becoming one of the west coast’s largest distributors. (Shout Factory)