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The Los Angeles Issue

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. 

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Preoccupations, Ill at Ease

The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.

Provoker, Mausoleum

Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth

Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.
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2015. Cold Beat press photo by Abby Banks

LISTEN: Cold Beat Stream Entirety of “Into the Air”

Listen to the San Francisco quartet’s new LP ahead of its September 4 release.

August 31, 2015

HOLLYWOOD, CA – APRIL 11: Director Wes Craven arrives at the premiere of the Weinstein Company’s “Scream 4” Presented by AXE Shower at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre on April 11, 2011 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Film + TV
RIP: Wes Craven (1939–2015)

The master of horror succumbed to brain cancer yesterday in Los Angeles.

August 31, 2015

Young Empires // photo courtesy Young Empires

PREMIERE: Storm “The Gates” With Young Empires’s Debut LP

Go front-to-back with the Toronto avant-pop trio.

August 31, 2015

Salad Boys // photo courtesy of Salad Boys

LISTEN: Salad Boys Share “No Taste Bomber”

New Zealand’s finest non-comedic musical group air out their angst.

August 28, 2015

Sound Board August

Staff Picks
Sound Board: The Week’s Best Tracks

Our picks for the best tracks out there for the week of August 24–28, 2015. Headphone-tested, FLOOD-approved.

August 28, 2015

Alex G “Bug” video

WATCH: Taste Young Love In Alex G’s “Bug” Video

“Beach Music” is out October 9 on Domino.

August 27, 2015

Destroyer “Times Square” video

WATCH: Take a Trip Through “Times Square” (via Enchanted Forest) with Destroyer

Get lost with Dan Bejar.

August 27, 2015

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Art & Culture
Facebook Launches Its own Siri-like Virtual Assistant, M

The new program is powered by both artificial intelligence and real people.

August 27, 2015

Neil Young press photo / by Pegi Young

Saddle Up the Palomino: For Two Nights Only, Neil Fest Is Headed for New York

Ryan Adams, Sharon Van Etten, Charles Bradley, Elvis Perkins, Norah Jones, Body/Head, and plenty more thrashers will roll by, with further additions to come.

August 27, 2015

Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer collage. Lawrence photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images.

Film + TV
Amy Schumer Currently Writing Movie with Best Bud Jennifer Lawrence

The two plan to costar as sisters.

August 26, 2015

Morrissey. FYF Fest 2015. credit Rozette Rago.

Art & Culture
Morrissey to Release First Work of Fiction “The List of the Lost” in September [UPDATED]

There’s no US release date for the novel yet. [There is now; it’s September 24.]

August 26, 2015

Julia Holter // photo by Tonje Thilesen

LISTEN: Julia Holter Shares “Sea Calls Me Home”

Alas, no more visuals of her dog.

August 26, 2015

Emilie & Ogden “Ten Thousand” Video Screengrab

PREMIERE: Emilie & Ogden Share Live Video for “Ten Thousand”

Start counting.

August 25, 2015

Girlpool / photo by Rozette Rago

Events
FYF 2015: The Portraits

Behind the scenes at LA Sports Arena & Exposition Park with Neon Indian, Tennis, The Drums, and more.

August 25, 2015

ATLANTA, GA – August 21: Bruce Springsteen performs with The E-Street Band at Alex Cooley’s Electric Ballroom on August 21, 1975 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Tom Hill/WireImage)

Staff Picks
Searching for His Groove: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” Turns Forty

We hide beneath the covers and study your pain on the fortieth anniversary of Springsteen’s maximalist masterpiece.

August 25, 2015

Petite Noir // photo by Travys Owen

LISTEN: Petite Noir Shuffles Into “MDR”

The African artist drops a third single ahead of “La Vie Est Belle / Life is Beautiful.”

August 25, 2015

Mike Krol

PREMIERE: Mike Krol Takes a Bite Out of Crime in “Neighborhood Watch” Video

The LA-via-Milwaukee punk gets behind the badge.

August 25, 2015

Grace Mitchell “Jitters” video screengrab

LISTEN: Grace Mitchell Goes All Out in “Jitter”y New Track

The seventeen-year-old pop singer’s debut EP is out now.

August 21, 2015

2015. The Libertines by Roger Sargent

LISTEN: The Libertines Drop Sweeping New Track “Anthem for Doomed Youth”

“Anthems for Doomed Youth” is out September 4 via Harvest Records.

August 21, 2015

“Aqua Teen Hunger Force” still

Film + TV
LISTEN: Patti Smith Sends “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” Off with a Song

The Adult Swim tentpole will be ending this Sunday.

August 21, 2015
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