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.
A. G. Cook, Britpop
Marking the end of the PC Music era, the three-disc album is a mystifying project that goes beyond Cook’s evolving aesthetic as it traverses the past, present, and future.
Yaya Bey, Ten Fold
The Brooklyn-based neo-soul vocalist and composer holds onto the chunky melodic hooks of her recent output while grieving the death of her father and finding room for romance and joy.
Les Savy Fav, OUI, LSF
The Brooklyn dance-punk group ends over a decade of inactivity with an album that simply feels like five friends reveling in the opportunity to get back in the same room together to rock out.
Konstantina Buhalis
The enigmatic duo will take the stage in Huntington Beach this weekend to play the Darker Waves Festival alongside legacy acts such as New Order, Tears for Fears, and The B-52’s.
How focus on community, DIY ethics, and progressive politics link the burgeoning anti-pop genre to an unlikely predecessor.