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.
Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
The Los Angeles Issue
Saintseneca, Highwallow & Supermoon Songs
The cosmic Ohio band’s sprawling fifth album represents the best of the late-’00s indie-folk scene, with Zac Little proving that he very much earns his suspenders.
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
A.D. Amorosi
What we’re excited for on the third weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event, ahead of its November Black Friday finale.
The industrial hip-hop group’s allegorical monsters are all too real on their latest LP.
Though recorded in a pre-pandemic setting last winter, “Letter to You” feels unusually safe.
The Kentucky-born-and-bred singer-songwriter is shutting down small-minded prejudices.
Garzón-Montano has created one of the most thought-provoking and atmospheric R&B albums of 2020.
The “Gimme Some Truth” box makes Lennon’s solo output sound better, brighter, and of a piece.
The mostly vocal album plucks from all that made the Sonic Youth dynamic so prickly and daring.
The Chilean-French artist moves from the screen and the page to the human body with his new film, “Psychomagic: A Healing Art.”
“New York” gets the deluxe box set treatment this week, while “Drella” gets a Record Store Day release three weeks later, a first on vinyl.
What we’re excited for on the second weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event.
The composers of Janelle Monáe’s newest film discuss the project, as well as their origins in the Wondaland Arts Society.
The multifaceted songwriter discusses the amorphous “Gen Hoshino genre,” his new American audience, and his contribution to Dua Lipa’s new remix LP.
Neither of these jazz recordings is any less mysterious or magical just because they’re finally available at large.
The reason to invest in Super Deluxe “Soup” is the once-pricey “Brussels Affair” live bootleg.
This lot, quiet or loud, make for an exquisite vision of T. Rex.
The latest from the Lips is a peculiarly placid sound that only this collection of artists seem capable of making.
The Alice Coltrane–gifted pseudonym resurfaced for a third record, released last Friday.
RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event kicks off this weekend—we talked to co-creator Michael Kurtz about what to expect, as well as preview twelve releases we’re excited for.
The record’s touching maturity doesn’t always jive with the wonton ways of its flaming musicality.
Ernest Green discusses his new album “Purple Noon,” the French film that inspired it, and his newfound love for collaboration.
