Maggot Brain Issue #21 Zine

THIRD MAN | SUMMER 2025

PAPERBACK | 114 PAGES | 8.5" x .75" x 11"

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edited by noted Detroit scribe Mike McGonigal: 100+ pages packed with phenomenal content – art, music, literature, unpublished archival material, and more – with a simple promise to only exist on the printed page.

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.