***On the cover—A comprehensive feature by music writer Shahlin Graves on why JAPANESE BREAKFAST’s recent record For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) rules so hard, going in-depth on the meaning and gestation of many of its songs with band leader Michelle Zauner, author of Crying in H Mart. We also have a bunch of really killer, exclusive photos lovingly accompanying the piece.An exceptional interview with Kai Slater, the super prolific, talented 20 year-old member of Lifeguard, about his terrific pure-pop-for-now-people solo project SHARP PINS by one of our favorite writers, Sydney Salk.Somehow we scored this amazing, lengthy oral history from the crew who worked behind the scenes on the 1981 Bronx-based cult horror flick WOLFEN. This alone is probably worth the price of admission (and is courtesy of our friends at the publisher Feral House.)A deliriously well-written tribute by noted music scribe and DJ Kurt Reighley to GAVIN FRIDAY, covering his entire career: from the Virgin Prunes through Hollywood collaborations, and his solo work today.Two separate charged and cantankerous interviews by Knoxville-based historian Eric Dawson, stitched together and serving as a swell tribute to the great Pere Ubu leader DAVID THOMAS (RIP). Ubu forever.
MAG $9.35
10/24/2025
***Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe MIKE MCGONIGAL: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content—art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more—with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. The cover features the new cover design with an unseen photo of Anthology of American Folk Music hero HARRY SMITH gracing the cover, plus an archival interview with Black Mountain / Bauhaus fabric arts pioneer ANNI ALBERS Albers, the reissue of a forgotten LOU REED album, CAT POWER's sense of humor, and tributes to RODRIGUEZ and PEE-WEE HERMAN.
MAG $11.25
10/06/2023
***Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe MIKE MCGONIGAL: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content—art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more—with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. Issue # 13 goes in depth with features on PRINCE, EMERALDS, KIM JUNG MI, MIMI LIPSON, STEWART LEE, NEGATIVLAND, MARY LATTIMORE, THE GO-BETWEENS, DUCHAMP/ROUSSEL and much, much more!
MAG $11.25
06/30/2023
***Maggot Brain is a full-color, quarterly magazine edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content—art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more—with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page. Issue # 8 Features 40-plus years of photos by MICHAEL LAVINE (LUX & IVY cover stars), GAIL BUTENSKY's rare intimate images of PAVEMENT, TOM SCHARPLING & MATT BERRY discuss prog rock, CINDY, LEA BERTUCCI, ROSALI & EMILY ROBB, 75 DOLLAR BILL, and much more.
MAG $11.25
03/18/2022