Maggot Brain Issue 21

JAPANESE BREAKFAST - 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.

PLUS - MORE 
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.