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.
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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.
Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.
SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
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The Jungle Giants Set the Tone for Their New LP with the Title Track “Love Signs”
The Australian electropop group share another single ahead of the release of their new record, out July 23.
July 08, 2021
Art & Culture
Sleater-Kinney to Join Good Food and KCRW Music on Latest Episode of “Sound Bites”
The virtual series returns July 20 with Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein in conversation with Evan Kleiman and Anne Litt.
July 07, 2021
Chasu’s “séance” and “sweet decay” Paint a World That’s Both Romantic and Discordant
The Korean producer releases the two tracks as a double single titled “bury me instead.”
July 07, 2021
Immersion Announce Collaborative Album, Share First Single “Skylarks” feat. Ulrich Schnauss
“Nanocluster Vol. 1,” the new LP from Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact and Colin Newman of Wire, will also feature Tarwater, Scanner, and Stereolab’s Laetitia Sadier.
July 06, 2021
Playlist
Arrested Youth Shares His Summer Nostalgia Playlist
With his new album “Nonfiction” out now, Ian Johnson fondly recalls the pop-punk greats of the 1990s and 2000s.
July 02, 2021
Hear Local Natives’ Microhouse Remix of Manchester Orchestra’s “Bed Head”
The remix arrives on the heels of Manchester Orchestra revealing North American tour dates through early 2022.
June 30, 2021
Playlist
LA Dreams of the UK: Cold War Kids Share a Playlist of Their British Influences
Nathan Willett shares which overseas artists the band was listening to while putting together their new LP “New Age Norms 3.”
June 29, 2021
Teenage Joans Bring Their “Taste of Me” EP to Life in Their New Video for “Wine”
The Australian pop-punk duo incorporate themes from each track on their recently released collection of songs in their latest visual.
June 29, 2021
Leah Blevins’ New Single “Beautiful Disaster” Is About the Irony of This Life
The song arrives ahead of the Kentucky songwriter’s debut album “First Time Feeling,” expected August 6.
June 25, 2021
Wilder. Look Back Into Their Past on New Single “bitemytongue”
A video for the SoCal rock duo’s latest track follows two singles shared earlier this year via Rude Records.
June 24, 2021
Dyke & the Blazers Unveil “The Walk (Part One – East)” From Forthcoming Career-Spanning Comp
The 41-track collections “Down on Funky Broadway: Phoenix (1966–1967)” and “I Got a Message: Hollywood (1968–1970)” drop this Friday.
June 23, 2021
Touchy Reveal a Cover of Plastic Bertrand’s “Tout Petit La Planète” with a Cloudy Video
The cover follows the disco duo’s debut single for Dangerbird Records, “Secret Melody.”
June 23, 2021
Maddie Ross Gets Revenge in Video for New Post-Breakup Tune “Ears Bunny”
The thundering single arrives shortly after the dancy May-released “Vroom Vroom.”
June 22, 2021
Geographer’s New Song “Hollow (Do You?)” Finds the Human Psyche Thwarting Love
The LA musician’s forthcoming album “Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights” is out November 12.
June 10, 2021
Angie McMahon and the Wild Reeds Share Covers to Celebrate 20 Years of Dualtone
The former reimagines Oh Pep’s “Tea, Milk & Honey,” while the latter takes on Mt. Joy’s “Younger Days.”
June 08, 2021
Tom Morello Announces Bloody Beetroots Collab with New Song “Radium Girls”
The first single from their EP “The Catastrophists” was co-written by Jehnny Beth of Savages, Nadya Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot, and others.
June 04, 2021
Julius Rodriguez Shares New Singles “Midnight Sun” and the DJ Jazzy Jeff–Featuring “Silver Rain”
The singles follow a series of live recordings from the jazz artist.
June 04, 2021
CHVRCHES Share a Visual for “How Not to Drown,” Their New Single with Robert Smith
The single arrives ahead of the group’s newly unveiled album “Screen Violence,” out August 27 on Glassnote.
June 03, 2021
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Billie Eilish Throws a Sleepover Party in Video for New Track “Lost Cause”
The single is the latest to arrive ahead of “Happier Than Ever”’s July 30 release date.
June 02, 2021
Phoebe Bridgers, CHVRCHES, The Killers, Khalid, and More to Play Splendour XR Virtual Music Fest
Denzel Curry, Little Simz, Charli XCX, Grimes, and many more are also on board for the “immersive virtual music festival experience.”
June 01, 2021
