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.
Hayden Merrick
Elizabeth Stokes discusses how the group’s new album Expert in a Dying Field was inspired in equal parts by the complexities of jazz and the harmonies of pop music.
With their sepia-toned debut LP 90 in November out now, the indie-pop quintet share a playlist of tracks they look back on fondly.
Ahead of Friday’s release day, Stu Hopkins also notes 5 albums the band “straight up ripped off” on their new LP.
With shows in 13 countries booked throughout the fall, it looks like the third iteration of indie rock’s enigmatic VIPs gets the honeymoon that never was.
The LA-based trio reshapes the aloof robotics of Kraftwerk and the auditory illusions of Melody’s Echo Chamber into their own unique voice on their second LP.
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Dehd, UV-TV, and more bands pushing rock music forward by pulling from the past.
Melody Prochet’s third LP is more contained than her previous album and more sophisticated than her spirited echo-pop debut.
The duo’s desperately anticipated self-titled debut elicits a too-cool-for-school demeanor and will appeal to any overthinking or underthinking post-millennial.
The Australian “power emo” trio use their latest LP to heal storm scars, allowing themselves a less purposeful indulgence that nevertheless resonates with the same immediacy
The latest from Glenn Donaldson’s melancholy outfit is a rewarding release in an increasingly saturated jangle-pop landscape.
From Green Day’s homage to “Catcher in the Rye” to Japanese Breakfast channeling Raymond Carver, here are some of the best tracks inspired by literature.
With a fondness for the usual jangling suspects, the band’s first release in 11 years is a cumulonimbus of reverby guitar-pop unconcerned with fitting in.