XLR8R gets ready for spring with our April issue (#106), featuring post-everything instrumentalists Battles, whose debut full-length Mirrors drops May 15 on Warp. Cranking out equally perplexing rhythms are London-based jazz artists Soil & Pimp and Oneida’s Brah! Records. We chat with the new school of Detroit hip-hop artists, including Phat Kat, Guilty Simpson, and Black Milk, Friendswithyou answers our burning questions in Vis-Ed, and that’s just a fraction of this issue’s goodies.

XLR8R 106 is on newsstands now. Contact us to find out where to buy the magazine, download a PDF of the entire issue straight to your desktop, or subscribe to the XLR8RDigital Magazine Podcast. Happy Spring, from the XLR8R crew!