The Loft, Spacemen 3, shack, and The Weather Prophets in memory of the incomparably-brilliant Eric de Jesus.

I enjoy my hunt for deer ankles to varying degrees on varying days. Occasionally, I beeline straight to the register to ask if deer ankles are present. Other times I walk through the aisles thinking about the question before going in for the kill. Enlightenment couldn’t describe it and I can only try.

Herr God manages to thread the needle masterfully: elegant main vocals and soft piano accents contrast beautifully with fuzzed out guitar and screams. A cathartic listening experience that can only be described as excellent. Though I do have to wait for the rest of the EP, it’s gearing up to be close to a perfect 10 for our print edition reviews.

“Piss,” they exclaim, “it’s got to be piss.”

In conversation with one of Ohio’s hidden gems, the rambunctious and ever-endearing Guy Music.

In a world that feels like it’s crumbling around us, we deserve to have people in public offices that push for institutional, structural change instead of bandaid solutions. The work cannot be done through politics alone, but it’s time for a new generation of leaders that are willing to not only hold the line but to do the unthinkable: build something better.

Elahe’s body was eventually brought out

from beneath the shattered tin roof

of the sports hall in Lamerd.

when you sleep

you sleep in my humming

radio ambience

this layer of atmosphere

that hovers above every skin

Winter here dies like someone drowning. Snow claws back across the ground then recedes in gasps, clinging to the shadows of houses and trees until all at once it is over, drenched in sunlight, summer once again.

Kiwi Jr.’s Jeremy Gaudet talks new album, production philosophy, and movie theater seats.

Poison Tree’s music recommendations for July. In no particular order.

Featuring: The Scorpios, Ouiness, Artery, Family Fodder, The Minders, The Gizmos, Dolly Mixture, Big Joanie, and more.

On September 12, 1973, an American Pan Am 707 landed in Shanghai. On board were 120 members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, led by their conductor, Eugene Ormandy. After taking a final late-night flight from Shanghai to Beijing, the orchestra disembarked and was led through the quiet early morning streets by Chinese officials and staffers at the US liaison office in Beijing.

The orthodoxy has failed us when it comes to analyzing inflation. The simplified see-saw, with inflation on one end and unemployment on the other, is a valuable key to understanding inflation, but it’s not the full picture. The stagflation that plagued the 1970s is clear evidence that this dynamic is not consistent. Focusing on employment does not cut it, especially in a situation as unique as a post-pandemic economy.

Art DiFuria’s music has always been a staple in my life. For ages, I didn’t even know I was tuning in to him in particular.

He’s ‘90s cool, he’s psychedelic resurgence. Above all, he’s a pleasant guy to talk to:

This is the first time you’ve ever been drunk

in this house.

Lying on the floor saying

I might not be a real person.

Le Belladone demands to be listened to—and watched. Quebec’s brilliant rising star now in conversation with Poison Tree.

In 1951 Zakaria Goneim made an incredible discovery. Eight years later his body was found floating in the Nile. His death is the second in this story. The first, nearly 4.5 thousand years earlier, set the stage for a conspiracy that still has ripple effects today.

Dedicated to Tillie Olsen

Because to me, Winooski is the opposite of Yonnondio,

not a dirge, not lost, very much passed to the future.

It was a two-nightmare night, a fragile sleep. My son ambled into our room and sandwiched himself between me and my husband, inconsolable. My side of the bed is directly under the witch-window. Instead of settling, he stared past me to that long rectangular window that hugs the roofline, and then, furtively, back to the door he’d entered from.

My ballot is a list of unopposed nominees this year, a touch-screen coronation for machine men and women who waited their turn and reached the front of the line. For me, there is no line. I’m in and out in a minute. I don’t vote for anybody running unopposed; there’s something I can’t stand about that…

Though Philadelphia has taken on many forms in its almost 350 years of history, it is often associated with an idealized version of the founding values of the United States. According to the traditional narrative, Philadelphia is the cradle of American liberty – the place where the Founding Fathers and political thinkers like Thomas Paine debated the ideas that would go on to define the nation and distinguish it from the monarchies of the Old World.