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.
Nia Archives, Silence Is Loud
With her debut collection of drum and bass music, the English musician comments on the history of a multitude of subgenres in a way that’s never navel-gazey and always assured.
girl in red, I’M DOING IT AGAIN BABY!
Marie Ulven’s revved-up sophomore LP is both fun and uncomfortable, a poperatic portrait of the artist fucking up and learning in real time.
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.
Sam C. Mac
Pop hero to trap villain and back again.
The singer’s new suite of works—”Blonde,” “Endless,” and “Boys Don’t Cry”—exists on its own terms, turning his understanding of fluid identification into an aesthetic.
The pair of female protagonists at the center of this apocalypse thriller provide the only wrinkle in an otherwise rote genre film.
The once (and future?) visionary director returns with this strongest flick since 2008’s “Be Kind Rewind.”
Kieran Darcy-Smith ably connects the dilemmas of the present with the hewing of the western frontier. His resolution leaves something to be desired.
The first season of Netflix’s Kyle Chandler–led serial drama offset its idyllic setting with a story of white-knuckle familial tension. Now creators Glenn and Todd Kessler and Daniel Zelman are doubling down.