***In this issue: DEVO—a comprehensive feature by Autin, TX-based music writer Joe Gross on why DEVO matters—today more than ever, as cultural, political, and spiritual devolution seems to be the way of the world. The piece is perfectly illustrated with ephemera, buttons, t-shirts, and more.A conversation with Irvin Weathersby, Jr. by Sonya Lea on the occasion of the publication of his book In Open Contempt: Confronting White Supremacy in Art & Public Space.One of our favorite writers on one of our favorite bands?! Yes please: Sydney Salk talks to Horsegirl about their seemingly effortless garage-motorik sound.Leaders of the Pack: On the transformation of the Shangri-Las from clean-cut girl group to motorcycle street urchins,” by Lisa MacKinney.We are treated to gorgeous images by Imam Sucahyo, a self-taught artist born in Tuban, East Java, 1978, with illuminating words by Randall Morris.A great piece about one of our recent musical obsessions, “Talking jazz, prog, and Seinfeld with power-pop upstart 2nd Grade,” by Dan Weiss.Tons more!
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05/16/2025
***"On the Cover: The Velvet Underground—with multiple features on your favorite band, with rare images and cool ephemera throughout, as well as A Guide To The Velvet Underground's Live Tape Stash by Tyler Wilcox. Plus, full length reviews of new reissues of cassette tapes by ur-VU drummer Angus MacLise, and a lengthy appreciation by Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Light in the Attic's excellent pre-VU Lou Reed set. Plus features on TV ON THE RADIO, ANTIETEM & SLEEPYHEAD, 12XU Records, SWEEPING PROMISES, RAZOR BRAIDS, THE SONICS, DEPARTMENT STORE SANTAS, and much more.
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01/24/2025
***"On the cover: Grace Jones by Tamara Palmer: Palmer delves into the entire history of this remarkable artist, who will naturally deliver us a stunning cover image. Jones is even more of a one-of-a-kind musician and persona than most of us realize, so we're extra excited to feature her on the cover of this issue. Deep Archival Dives With Living Luminaries -- PULP: Peeling back the onion of time, we are graced with a fine selection of ephemera and rare images from the forthcoming Hat + Beard book on the cult band's cult band: I'm With Pulp, Are You?, by Mark Webber; Mayo Thompson: Jasper Leach has delivered a stunningly good and very deep dive into the genesis and long life of Thompson's masterpiece Corky's Debt to His Father; REDD KROSS: They've already had a great double album and documentary readied for summer but in the Fall there's also a definitive RK book so we enlisted Jen B. Larson to do a career-spanning feature on your favorite teen babes from Monsanto. Larson wrote Hit Girls: Women of Punk in the USA 1975-83; MARY TIMONY: Mary Timony is one of the great guitar luminaries and songwriters of the indie era, but rarely does she get the credit she deserves. Audrey Golden, author of I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records, not only went into every nook and cranny of Timony's career, but the first question she asked Timony is one for the ages: 'Is that a lute?'"
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10/25/2024
***On The Cover: Unpublished Joe Dilworth photo of My Bloody Valentine, from sessions for their Isn't Anything record. My Bloody Valentine: Revelatory, unpublished interview excerpts from hours of tapes with Kevin Shields by editor Mike McGonigal conducted for his 33⅓ book on Loveless. Inside: A great interview with Joe Dilworth by Mike Galinsky and pages of his photos of London's underground music scenes in the 1980s and '90s, including unseen images of MBV. Will Oldham: Great, lengthy conversation with his collaborator and longtime friend Nathan Salsburg, on the occasion of their record of Lungfish covers. Harvey Milk: Epic, well-illustrated oral history of the pioneering '90s Athens, GA-based doom/ heavy-rock/ experimental/otherwise unclassifiable and influential band. Justin Green: New scans of the underground cartoonist's music comics, many originally published in Tower's Pulse magazine. 18 full pages, with text by comics historian John Kelly."
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07/12/2024
***This is a really packed, special issue of Maggot Brain, with the feature cover story a comprehensive interview by celebrated writer Sasha Frere-Jones with essayist Lucy Sante (who's written for every issue of MB since the start), on the occasion of her awesome memoir about transitioning, I Heard Her Call My Name. Inside: Phill Niblock: A tribute to the genius musician, filmmaker, label head, and generous promoter of ecstatic sound, by Steve Silverstein. Tresa Leigh: An in-depth feature on the star of Efficient Space's beloved Ghost Riders compilation! Really a beautiful, untold story. Dredd Foole: As his legacy is revealed through Corbett vs Dempsey's archival series, Foole talks to Six Organs of Admittance's Ben Chasny about the role of his band the Din in the Boston underground. Plus, sidebars from Christina Carter, Kris Price, and Phil Milstein. Loopsel: Mike McGonigal on some of the most elusive, beautiful contemporary music, straight out of Gothenburg. Sleater-Kinney: 30 vital years of uncompromising music, by none other than Audrey Golden. All that and tons more.
MAG $13.50
03/29/2024
***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 feature is a career-spanning piece by TAMARA PALMER on Iceland’s most noted export since the foundation of their parliament in 930, BJÖRK, with a terrifically gorgeous cover image by our illustrator, MARLY BEYER. Also included and excerpt from a graphic novel by MARCELLUS HALL; CHELSEA WOLFE, WAYNE PHOENIX, BE YOUR OWN PET, PENGUIN CAFE, a new food column from QUINTRON and much more.
MAG $13.50
12/22/2023
***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. 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.
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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!
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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 # 12 goes in depth with DOLLY PARTON, OCTAVIA BUTLER, ROLIN-POWERS, THE CLEAN + HAMISH KILGOUR, FRED TOMASELLI, CRAZY DOBERMAN, TAYONDAI BRAXTON, GALORE and much, much more.
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04/14/2023
***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 # 11 is dedicated to the memory of astral traveling saxophone colossus PHAROAH SANDERS, with a tremendous evaluation of his most important work by the great music writer ANDY BETA as the cover feature, rare images by LENI SINCLAIR, and a brief remembrance by film director JEFF FEURZEIG. Also in this issue are features on MICK COLLINS, LAMBCHOP, LUCY SANTE, ERNEST HOOD, EDEL RODRIGUEZ, WEDNESDAY KNUDSEN, THINKING FELLERS UNION LOCAL 282, and much more.
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01/27/2023
***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 # 10 has features on BELLE & SEBASTIAN, novelist DAVID GORDON, 1960s-'70s Motown artist CHRISTINA CARTER, CHRIS FORSYTH & STEVE WYNN, TONY IOMMI-era BLACK SABBATH, KATIE LASS, BARRY WALKER JR., BUFFY SAINT-MARIE, and much more.
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10/07/2022
***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 # 9 features RAYMOND PETTIBON, DAVID NANCE, JOHN BRANNON, MELVINS, CHERI KNIGHT, AMY RUHL, LIDIA YUKNAVITCH, THE WILLIES, SEYMOUR GLASS, SARAH ELIZABETH SCHANTZ, and much more.
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07/08/2022
***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.
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03/18/2022
***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 # 7 Features on VELVET UNDERGROUND’s Loaded, KURT VILE on the GRATEFUL DEAD, LEE “SCRATCH” PERRY, MICHAEL HURLEY, SISTER ROSETTA THARPE, DEAN WAREHAM, DOUG HENNING, THE GOATS, GRETCHEN GONZALES, DAVIDSON, and tons more.
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12/24/2021
***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 # 6 features pieces on BIKINI KILL, BORIS, ENDLESS BOOGIE, NEW KINGDOM, THE CLEAN, E.L.O., ARCHIE SHEPP, ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, PRIMAL SCREAM, THE GUERILLA GIRLS, PLANETARY PEACE and more.
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09/24/2021
***BACK IN STOCK!!! 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 # 5 features RAINCOATS, AC/DC, JIM JARMUSCH, MARISA ANDERSON & WILLIAM TYLER, TERRY RILEY & HAMID DRAKE, GARY PANTER comics, and much more.
MAG $11.25
06/11/2021