The UK post-punk group discusses their new debut album This Could Be Texas and the sense of limbo and alienation that inspired it.
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Weyes Blood Rides a Meteor to Earth in New Video for “Andromeda”
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Words: Mike LeSuer
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RJD2 Returns with “Through It All,” Featuring Jamie Lidell and Lots of Mouth Sounds
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Stream Coachella 2024 Here: Full Schedule with Lana Del Rey, No Doubt, Vampire Weekend, and More
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Alex Garland’s Civil War Takes an Objective Stance on Pre-Election Anxieties
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FLOOD FM Announces Kilby Block Party Radio, Airing Every Saturday Leading Up to the Event
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Neighborhoods
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English Teacher: Between Leeds and Texas
The UK post-punk group discusses their new debut album This Could Be Texas and the sense of limbo and alienation that inspired it.
Words: Will Schube
Photos: Tatiana Pozuelo
In Conversation
RiTchie on Resetting Expectations Once Again with Triple Digits [112]
The Injury Reserve/By Storm emcee talks stepping out on his own for his debut solo album and the 100-plus degree Arizona temperatures that helped inspire it.
Words: Will Schube
Photo: Patrick Driscoll
Sleater-Kinney: A Little Rope Goes a Very Long Way
As they wrap up their current set of dates supporting their new album, Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein discuss how their unique eleventh LP is the product of unique circumstances.
Words: Kurt Orzeck
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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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Primer Pursues Meaningful Change on New Single “Round and Round”
Words: Mike LeSuer
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GIFT Sign to Captured Tracks, Share New Single “Wish Me Away”
Words: Will Schube
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Consider Yourself Lucky That The People’s Joker Is Finally Here
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Bad Bad Hats Hide a Sad Song in a Happy Exterior (Again) with “Bored in the Summer”
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Monkey Man Brings Nuance to the Wick-Style Revenge Thriller
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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.
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