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.
Connor Duffey
The Grizzly Bear member opens up about artistic insecurities, living in the countryside, and his debut solo album You Belong There.
Ramona Gonzalez discusses one of the most challenging periods of her life, which led to her most mature album as Nite Jewel, “No Sun.”
Tia Cabral makes a huge instrumental and narrative leap forward on her lush new album.
The experimental project’s mastermind discusses his path out of mental peril and his sprawling new duets album “OH NO.”
Daniel Lopatin assembles a variety of dystopian styles he’s fostered over the years while throwing in some fantastic new ones.
The Irish dance icon’s latest record is a plunge into disco hedonism that feels like a remedy to tumultuous times.
The Welsh producer and DJ discusses how creating her latest album, “Inner Song,” helped lead her out of the hardest years of her life.
Nicolás Jaar’s third album of 2020 is a beautiful and challenging ambient record that does a lot with a little.
The Big Thief drummer crafts gorgeous, discomforting soundscapes on his new solo ambient endeavor.
From shimmering guitars to grimy synths, LA Priest explores a full-spectrum sound journey on “GENE”
The godfather of hypnagogic pop discusses reissuing his earliest albums.