With Beyoncé’s yeehaw era launching this week, we explore the genre’s long-suppressed and -overwritten history of Black performance.
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Hold Your Horses: A Brief History of Popular Black Country Music Ahead of Cowboy Carter
Words: Melanie Robinson
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Words: Marina Muhlfriedel
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Photo: Will Dearborn
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Photo: Hermione Sylvester
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Zach Hobbs
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Photo: Gillian Arditi
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Photos: Skylar Watkins
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Photo: Lauren Tepfer
Watch Corb Lund Perform Two Songs in Alberta, Canada for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Arsun Perform in Manhattan’s Lower East Side for “Neighborhoods”
Watch: Modern Classical Music from Germany at SXSW
Watch Sierra Spirit Perform Two Songs in Guilford, Connecticut for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Julien Chang Perform in Somerville, Massachusetts for “Neighborhoods”
Watch Hollow Coves Perform in Gold Coast, Australia for “Neighborhoods”
Watch FARR Perform Their New Single “Doom Gloom” in Los Angeles for “Neighborhoods”
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince share a tour diary documenting the final weeks of the US leg of their God Games dates in words and photos.
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Vocalist/keyboard player Marina Muhlfriedel recounts the tale of the lost ’80s new wave band’s heyday in Los Angeles.
Words: Marina Muhlfriedel
The film’s writer/director and star discusses his surrealist directorial debut for A24, the subconscious influence of Miyazaki, and working with Tilda Swinton.
Words: Adam Davidson
Photo: Jon Pack
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.
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Muriel Knudson
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Ebru Yildiz
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Photo: David Iskra
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Yota Hoshi
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Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: Elizabeth Miranda
Words: Adam Davidson
Photo: Jon Pack
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Photos: Eleanor Petry
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Photo: Jeanette D. Moses
Words: Mike LeSuer
Photo: David Iskra
Words: Lily Moayeri
Photos: Cody Critcheloe
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Photos: Bruno Jubin
Chastity Belt, Live Laugh Love
The Seattle four-piece has never sounded so in-sync musically as they confront their past instincts to always go for the laugh.
Nico, The Marble Index + Desertshore [Reissues]
The newly remastered re-pressings of Nico’s solo work with John Cale make the crackling drone of these avant-folk recordings sparkle brighter than ever.
Fears, Affinity
Densely textured yet sparsely minimal, Irish songwriter Constance Keane’s second solo album is unrelenting in its intense emotions.
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