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.




Photo by Michael Muller. Image design by Gene Bresler at Catch Light Digital. Cobver design by Jerome Curchod.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
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Visit your mom.

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They’re almost worth trampling someone over.

The heartfelt track from last year’s “Some Kind of Champion” gets an equally heartfelt clip.

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Phantogram, Bleached, Diet Cig, Jagwar Ma, and more hold off the rain outside Austin.

Dance yourself clean.

But tomorrow.

Beach House / photo by Andy Sawyer
Rain wreaked a bit of havoc on the fest’s inaugural affair outside Austin, but it was an only-fitting dramatic backdrop for the likes of Explosions in the Sky, Beach House, and Thee Oh Sees.

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The collaborative debut from John Dufilho (The Apples in Stereo) and Brandon Carr (The Earlies) is out January 13 via Idol Records.

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Helping us nurse a mid-Lollapalooza hangover, the shoegaze band…took off their shoes, so to speak, for an acoustic set.

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Some parents dress their kids up like superheroes. Some dress their kids up like athletes. But Sadie and Arlo’s parents dress them up like their favorite album covers.

The band will release Shin on November 18.

Seaworthy at Ace Hotel New Orleans / photo by Rush Jagoe
Like a New Orleans hotel is only gonna have one bar.

Look out, #33.

Featuring cover stories on M.I.A. and Wu-Tang Clan on one side, and Tenacious D (in conversation with political cartoonist Rob Rogers) and Paul Dano on the other.

Featuring cover stories on M.I.A. and Wu-Tang Clan on one side, and Tenacious D (in conversation with political cartoonist Rob Rogers) and Paul Dano on the other.

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The “Mean What I Mean” singer plays the Smoothie King Center with Sia and Miguel on November 3.

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Featuring cover stories on Daveed Diggs and Angel Olsen.

ONE TIME USE ONLY Kate Bush 1978 Photo by Chris Moorhouse/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
“Before the Dawn” was compiled from her residency at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, and will be out December 2 via Concord/Fish People.

PAPA / photo by Dan Regan
From the band’s new album “Kick at the Dust.”

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The legendary rock photographer shares intimate shots of one of his greatest subjects.