Maggot Brain Summer 2025 No. 21

• 100+ pages full-color, quarterly magazine 
• Art, music, literature, unpublished archival material & more
• Edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal

Summer 2025 issue

On the cover:

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. They 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 they 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 their 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.