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.
Khruangbin, A La Sala
The Houston instrumental trio’s back-to-basics fourth album is a delectably nuanced and subdued listen touched up with open-air production and field recordings.
Shabaka, Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
The prodigious jazz band leader shifts from kinetic energy to meditative tranquility as he puts down the sax on a solo release that’s somehow both calming and jarring.
Maggie Rogers, Don’t Forget Me
Sounding like a streamlined debut, the alt-pop songwriter’s third album propels the impact of her melodies by sanding down the electronic stylings and returning to her folk roots.