Maggot Brain Issue 21 - Japanese Breakfast Cover

Issue #21

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edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content – art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more – with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page.

CONTENTS:

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.

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.

Amazing and lengthy oral history from the crew who worked behind the scenes on the 1981 Bronx-based cult horror flick WOLFEN.

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).