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.
Oranssi Pazuzu, Muuntautuja
The Finnish avant-garde quintet’s sixth album is challenging from start to finish, managing to heap even more styles onto their mesmerizing blend of black metal and psychedelia.
Geordie Greep, The New Sound
The debut album from Black Midi’s ringleader feels stripped of the serious context from which its sound would normally exist—yet it mostly works due to how fully he commits to the bit.
The Bug, Machine
Producer Kevin Martin’s debut for the metal-focused Relapse Records is a collection of instrumentals harkening back to his earliest work while always opting to go darker and heavier.
Bryan Reesman
The musical comedian discusses The Illustrated Al, the new graphic novel anthology inspired by his songs, as well as his lifelong love for MAD magazine.
As the LA-based rockers tour their new LP She Said, their animated frontperson lists seven spooky-season movies that get under her skin.
Founder Yongman Kim discusses the pioneering video store’s revival at its new home in Lower Manhattan’s Alamo Drafthouse.
The pair discuss collaborating on the astral four-album series.