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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Bailey Pennick
“The alcohol industry is in my blood.”
As he prepares to release his thirteenth record, the LA-based singer/songwriter tells us how Zach Galifianakis, family life, and tiny particles all played a role in the making of “Are You Serious.”
Prior to their pilgrimage to see The Boss on his current “River” Tour, two of our editors size up the merchandising options that await them using the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: the Gmail G-chat.
The legendary swimmer cried when he first saw the Under Armour ad.
“I’ve been figuratively carrying him for years!”
“It’s NFL vs M.I.A. right now.”
1991’s “Study of a Bull” is part of a “very private, private collection in London.”
“Strangers” is out May 20 via Sacred Bones.
One girl’s ticket to Air Hollywood’s elaborate dinner party, which reaches unfathomable heights without ever leaving the ground.
In the first season of “True Detective,” Matthew McConaughey’s character Rust Cohle says that time is a flat circle and “The Psychedelic Swamp,” Dr. Dog’s “new” album, might just prove that theory right.
Nothing says love like blood and guts?
Are you not entertained?
Shoutout to Mark Ronson for also showing up!
The Coen Brothers’ seventeenth film is a delightful appreciation of old Hollywood.
“Don’t You”’s subject matter is brutal, but the record succeeds because it also isn’t a complete downer.
One day before she wins the Super Bowl…again.
Irvine Welsh’s latest novel just misses the emotional mark.
So many skulls being smashed in.
See? It does pay off to complain on the Internet!
The program will help fund and mentor transgender film makers.