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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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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Track by Track
SHAED Break Down Their Anxious Debut Album “High Dive” Track by Track
Hear what the D.C. trio had to say about the 13 tracks that encapsulate the highs and lows of life since the pandemic.
May 14, 2021
Bendigo Fletcher Announce Debut LP, Share Animated Video for “Sugar in the Creek”
“Fits of Laughter” arrives August 13 via Elektra Records.
May 13, 2021
Local Natives Announce Return to the Stage This Fall with a Pair of Dates at The Greek
The rockers will be joined by Cherry Glazerr in LA on August 14 ahead of a September 9 set in Berkeley.
May 12, 2021
Smile Share a Kaleidoscopic Visual for Recent Single “Kylie”
“Phantom Island,” the Swedish duo’s first LP in nearly nine years, arrives this summer.
May 07, 2021
Paloma Get Lost in the Storm of Desperation on “Lips”
It’s the follow-up single to the group’s first EP “Luna.”
May 06, 2021
Sunsleeper Remember Mac Miller with Dreamy Cover of “Come Back to Earth”
The Utah rockers take on the rapper’s “Swimming” single.
May 06, 2021
Love Truls Captures the Excitment of Budding Love with Siri Gunrup Järvinen on “Trembling Hands”
The Swedish musician’s forthcoming debut EP “Kantande Wanai” is out June 4.
April 30, 2021
Summer Salt Announce New LP “Sequoia Moon,” Share Video for First Single “Monday’s Fácil”
The Phil Ek–produced record arrives June 25 via Cherry Lime Records.
April 30, 2021
Watch Dave Grohl and His Daughter Violet Cover X’s “Nausea” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The pair are joined by Krist Novoselic on the track from Grohl Sr.’s new touring documentary.
April 28, 2021
Royal Canoe Announce New LP “Sidelining,” Share First Single “Butterfalls”
The art-pop collective shares the soulful first single from the new album, out July 9 on Paper Bag Records.
April 28, 2021
Jimkata Stubbornly Run From the Reaper in Catchy Synthpop Single “Hard Headed”
Their upcoming album “Bonfires” is due this summer.
April 23, 2021
Potent Smells Help Transviolet Escape the Reality of a Dumb Party on “Clean Laundry”
The single follows last month’s “Drugs in California.”
April 23, 2021
Jesse Marchant Looks Back on a Near-Fatal Childhood Incident on “An Accident (From 3 Perspectives)”
The latest record from the Canadian multi-instrumentalist formerly known as JBM arrives June 25.
April 22, 2021
Dana and the Wolf Make the Best of Bad Situations on “It’s Too Late”
The track arrives ahead of the Burbank-based duo’s debut LP “LA Fade.”
April 22, 2021
Celebrate 4/20 the Foo Fighters Way (Waking Up Stoned in the Desert and Descending Into Hell)
The Foos’ video for “Chasing Birds” is a reminder to stay hydrated.
April 20, 2021
La Femme Host a Dance Party to End All Dance Parties for “Nouvelle-Orléans”
The new music video for their track off this month’s “Paradigmes” is vibrant nightclub bliss.
April 20, 2021
Art & Culture
National Geographic Announces Earth Day Eve Streaming Event feat. José González, Rostam, Maggie Rogers, and More
Read a brief exclusive Q&A with González on his involvement with the April 21 event.
April 19, 2021
The Deslondes’ Riley Downing Shares Lovelorn Single “I’m Not Ready” Ahead of His Solo Debut
The album arrives May 14 via New West Records, with a tour kicking off May 1.
April 19, 2021
Arcade Fire Redefine the Term “Quarantine Record” with “Memories in the Age of Anxiety”
There’ve been too many songs about loneliness lately—and not enough 45-minute ambient singles written for meditation apps.
April 15, 2021
Jaguar Jonze Inhabits Her Music’s Cyberpunk World in Her “TESSELLATIONS” Video
The track arrives ahead of her “ANTIHERO” EP, dropping this Friday.
April 14, 2021
