The new film’s co-star discusses the creative freedom she felt while working with director Hikari, as well as how the story’s message of fitting in in a foreign culture resonated with her.
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Mari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Mari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Film + TVIn Conversation
Mari Yamamoto on Rental Family and the Power of Human Connection
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Photos: James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures
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Alemeda Is Figuring Out the Answers
Words: Mike Wass
Photos: Abdi Ibrahim
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Additional Photos: Kimberley Ross
Gary “Mani” Mounfield, Bassist for The Stone Roses and Primal Scream, Dies at 63
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Photo: Pennie Smith
5 Questions
5 Questions with Roddy Bottum
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Watch St. Panther Perform on a Rooftop in East Hollywood for “Neighborhoods”
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Watch The Happy Fits Perform in Woodstock, New York for “Neighborhoods”
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Mari Yamamoto and Brendan Fraser in RENTAL FAMILY. Photo by James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures. © 2025 Searchlight Pictures. All Rights Reserved.
Film + TVIn Conversation
Mari Yamamoto on Rental Family and the Power of Human Connection
The new film’s co-star discusses the creative freedom she felt while working with director Hikari, as well as how the story’s message of fitting in in a foreign culture resonated with her.
Words: Adam Davidson
Photos: James Lisle/Searchlight Pictures
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Alemeda Is Figuring Out the Answers
With her new EP But What the Hell Do I Know out now, the alt-pop songwriter talks overcoming genre barriers while learning life lessons the hard way.
Words: Mike Wass
Photos: Abdi Ibrahim
Stylist: Jai Simmons
Additional Photos: Kimberley Ross
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The Los Angeles Issue
With 232 pages and an expanded 12″ by 12″ format, our biggest print issue yet celebrates the people, places, music, and art of our hometown, including cover features on David Lynch, Nipsey Hussle, Syd, and Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records, plus Brian Wilson, Cuco, Ty Segall, Lord Huron, Remi Wolf, The Doors, the art of RISK, Taz, Estevan Oriol, Kii Arens, and Edward Colver, and so much more.
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MJ Lenderman Announces Joint Solo Tour with Waxahatchee, Preps Live Album with Karly Hartzman
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Merissa Blitz
David Byrne Isn’t Wearing an Oversized Suit on New Brian Eno Collab “T Shirt”
Words: Will Schube
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Immaterialize’s New Single “Cheesecake Factory” Matches Its Subject’s Surreal Atmosphere
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Words: Mike LeSuer
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Amyl and the Sniffers Open Bar Tabs for Fans After Melbourne Show Gets Shut Down
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Backstage Camera Roll
Backstage Camera Roll: Maribou State at CRSSD 2025
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Home Front’s “10 Songs to Watch It All Die To” Playlist
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Austra Takes Us Deeper Into the Upbeat Electronic World of Her New LP Chin Up Buttercup
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Boy Golden and Cat Clyde Find Inspiration in Each Other’s Voices on New Duet “Cowboy Dreams”
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The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
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