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A look back at more than three decades of jangle, fuzz and hooks.
Plus Bat for Lashes, Idaho, BEAK>, HHY and the Macumbas, Bad Nerves, and Can
Plus La Luz, Carlos Niño and Friends, Gastr Del Sol, Aluminum, Young Jesus, Bill MacKay and Brian Eno, Holger Czukay and J. Peter Schwalm
Plus A.G. Cook, Arab Strap, Yaya Bey, Jim White & Marisa Anderson, Mary Lattimore & Walt McClements, and Sisso & Maiko
Plus Jessica Pratt, Ibibio Sound Machine, Hana Vu, Kamasi Washington, John Carpenter, Kee Avil, Agriculture, John McKiel and Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti & Frank Rosaly
Plus the best live shows of the month
Plus Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, Darkthrone, Full of Hell, Glassing, Houses of Heaven, LustSickPuppy, Six Organs of Admittance, Tara Jane O’Neil, and Writhing Squares
Plus Bbymutha, Lord Spikeheart, High on Fire, Infinite River, Ekko Astral, Cavalier and Couch Slut
Plus Necrot, Still House Plants, Avalanche Kaito, Sunburned Hand of the Man, and The Reds, Pinks and Purples
To be a “festival guy” or not to be a festival guy
Plus Mount Kimbie, Drahla, Fabiana Palladino, Adam Wiltzie, Drahla, Witch Vomit and Iron Monkey
Plus Ride, Roc Marciano, Shabazz Palaces, Coffins, and Majesty Crush
Plus Adrianne Lenker, Rosali, Restorations, Julia Holter, Early Day Miners, Glass Beams, Klaus Johann Grobe, Nourished by Time, Civerous and Alice Coltrane.
A new history of CCM dives into its rise, decline and specious politics
Plus Kacey Musgraves, Tierra Whack, James Brandon Lewis and the Messthetics, Heavee and Lustmord
Including The Body & Dis Fig, meth., Spectral Voice and more
Plus: Pissed Jeans, Yard Act, Ben Frost, Schoolboy Q, Jahari Yassamba Unit, Mildlife, Sheer Mag, and Linda Smith