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.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard, Neptunes
Each track on the electronic composer and Hot Chip leader’s debut EP together has a unique rhythmic texture, with the constant theme being a wall of bass that transports you to a celestial space.
New Order, Brotherhood [Definitive Edition]
With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Josh Tillman focuses his lens on death on his darkly comedic sixth album as eclectic instrumentation continues to buttress his folky chamber pop beyond ’70s pastiche.
Daniel Harmon
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“Game of Thrones” is striving admirably to carry its abundance of characters, territories, and plotlines. But it doesn’t have to.
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Pop cultural deaths that occurred back before death was cool.
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Two of our editors discuss their use (and abuse) of the online encyclopedia using the preferred forum of pop-culture enthusiasts everywhere: G-chat.
Pop culture recommendations to aid in coping with the Donald.
The “Green Room” director is slashing his way to the top.
Even a slaughterhouse has its rules. But is that enough?
Jeff Nichols’ latest film gamely shifts across genres without signaling.
The multi-hyphenate star of “Silicon Valley” joins us ahead of the show’s April 24 season premiere to discuss birthdays, podcasts, Donald Trump, and ketchup.
The winner of the Director’s Award at last year’s Sundance burns slowly—and brightly.
The New York–based writer plays tennis with history.
Kaufman’s puppet-play allows us to find grace in the despair of everyday life.
A critic’s documentary about an iconic dialogue gives new life to old debates.
Supernatural terrors conspire with the evils of war in this bold new adaptation.
The film adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel burns quietly.
The celebrated British novelist returns with his followup to 2014’s “The Bone Clocks.”