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edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content – art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more – with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page.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 an epic, really long timeline of images and interview with the modern king of arts portrait photography, Michael Lavine.
+ Amazing archival images by Gail Butensky and reflections on
Pavement + what we think is the band’s first new interview in a
decade in anticipation of their reusion shows and events later this year
+ Tom Scharpling talks about prog rock with Matt Berry
+ a lengthy interview with the SF-based dreamy pop band Cindy by
editor Mike McGonigal
+ Reuben Radding’s killer photos and review of a recent show in
Brooklyn by Chicago’s Irreversible Entanglements
+ Ana Gavrilovska on why sax player and drone composer Lea
Bertucci matters
+Sara Jaffe on how essayist Aisha Sabatini Sloan is a genius