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.
Tsunami, Loud Is As
This five-LP set spotlights how singular the slacker-rockers were as songwriters and offbeat vocal harmonists while putting their out-of-print catalog back into the world where it belongs.
Fazerdaze, Soft Power
Dream-pop songwriter Amelia Murray returns seven years after her debut with a newfound confidence and a conscious effort to loudly reclaim her best years.
Venus Twins, /\/\/\/\/
Juxtaposing a love of sewing with 13 minutes of whiplash-inducing, eardrum-destroying atonal assaults, the Brooklyn duo’s latest EP is yet another confounding product of twin telepathy.
Alex Wexelman
Mark E. Smith and his band stretch these songs to their limits, like The Velvet Underground before them.
Will even the most extreme Zappa-head want to listen to a quasi-greatest hits culled from less than 1/5 of Zappa’s output?
On his fourth full-length, the rocker continues to experiment outside of the Bay Area garage rock scene he was reared in.