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.
Cloud Nothings, Final Summer
Though continuing to build off the blueprint of 2012’s Attack on Memory, Dylan Baldi replaces some of that early release’s angst with a measured positivity on the group’s eighth album.
High on Fire, Cometh the Storm
After a relatively long wait, Matt Pike’s sludge-metal outfit returns with their most adventurous, pigeonhole-smashing, and idiosyncratic release to date.
Woo, Robot X + Xylophonics [Reissues]
Dabbling in odd, electronically treated acoustic instrumentation, the new-age-gone-wild sibling duo repackages material recorded in the ’80s and released last decade for a new label.
Randy Bookasta
“This is our fond farewell to 2023. Our PUNK gesture for a better future.”
Fishbone, Shepard Fairey, Rancid’s Tim Armstrong, and a “super secret special guest” will also appear at the event benefiting Musack on October 13 and 14.
From car and surf culture to their connections to LA rock, punk, and hip-hop, these artists have had a profound impact on visual art in our city.
The song also features guitar work from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready and percussion by Lauren Brown.
Catching up with the photographer whose iconic images helped to define the birth of LA’s punk scene.
In other news, Gallagher says he and brother Noel are “both the problem” in Oasis feud.
The first live show in Los Angeles since the pandemic unfolded raised funds for PLUS1 for Black Lives Fund and Summaeverythang.
Jane Oranika (aka emerging rap star Chika) has never been a stranger to speaking out, with her voice first gaining…
The remaining members of FoW will reunite for the first time in seven years.
The full-length film can be watched here.
The movie that helped launch the career of a teenaged Nicolas Cage is now streaming.
The track is from their new “Dancing on the People Remix EP.”
Questlove, Flying Lotus, Chance the Rapper, Kacey Musgraves, Flea, and many others on the passing of the soul giant.
Jarvis Cocker, Fred Armisen, Devendra Banhart, Ben Gibbard, Marcos Valle, and many others will perform in support of MusicCare’s COVID-19 relief fund.
Tierra Whack, James Blake, and Jason Isbell take on covers by the likes of Radiohead, Roxy Music, and John Prine.
The band members took turns curating picks from the extensive online archive.
On his birthday, an unearthed Ziggy Stardust show preview and video from Bowie’s historic American debut.
The track is from “400 Miles From L.A. 1955-56,” a new collection featuring the first known recordings of Hazlewood singing his own material.
The music fest curated by Robert Smith also featured Throwing Muses, Chelsea Wolfe, and Mogwai.
The track is from her upcoming “This Is Better Pt. 1” EP.