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.
Couch Slut, You Could Do It Tonight
Leaning into their lyrical strength of expressing life as we know it as a visceral horror story, the sludge-rockers’ fourth album is equally notable for its unexpected instrumental flourishes.
The Libertines, All Quiet on The Eastern Esplanade
Almost 30 years into their existence, the post-punk revivalists let listeners know that their youthful fire hasn’t dimmed on their fourth, most tightly wound album.
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.
Alejandro Rubio
Costumes, cosmic tunes, and getting carried away at the fourth annual gathering of the ghouls in Orange County.
The seersucker-clad crooner is back for his fifteenth solo release, and this time he’s enlisted the help of a few familiar, yet unexpected friends.
Moving up in production weight class is almost always a tough thing to pull off, but Iceage’s new album verifies that the group is willing to make that jump.
If anything, Musik simply exists as a precursor to everything Coyne and Drozd would and did do.