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.
Kim Deal, Nobody Loves You More
On her solo debut, The Breeders band leader abandons sarcasm and lo-fi aesthetics in favor of florid arrangements that frame a far more sensitive side of the songwriter.
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.
Jim Sullivan
Although many deem it too little too late, members of NIVA share where they’re at heading into Phase Two.
With artists and venue staff at the forefront of the fight to keep live music alive, we talked to Best Coast, Phantogram, illuminati hotties, and more artists and club owners about the industry’s future.
The deep dive into the early years of MTV debuts Sept. 8 on A&E
Members of NIVA share their thoughts on RESTART, Save Our Stages, and ENCORES.