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.
Kurt Orzeck
With the California sun in his eyes, the dark master of atmosphere and ambience has just released his lightest-ever record, the appropriately titled “Love Streams.” But that doesn’t mean he’s going soft.
All good things come to an end.
Parquet Courts possess a unique skill: making each of their albums sound as if it was their first.
Stirring up dirt in the Joshua Tree desert with Iggy Pop and Josh Homme—the world’s smartest Dum Dum Boys—to talk “Post Pop Depression,” this year’s most devastating rock album.
Ariel Rechtshaid knows how to pick ’em.
With some infectious dance moments in the mix, “A Man Alive” is a complex journey into the soul with life-affirming side effects.
So Pitted pulls the cloth off the table, but instead of trying to execute a magic trick, the band gleefully lets all the dishes crash to the floor.
Nathan Rodriguez and his band are boldly going where no rock band has gone before—and fucking around a bit, too.
Canada’s greatest post-rock band provokes introspection, obedience, and awe.
“On Nature” continues to energetically vacillate between tight and drifting experimentation.
This weekend’s fourth edition of the massive alternative comedy fest sprawls across downtown Los Angeles.
All of your favorite comics—and their favorite comics—will be in downtown LA this weekend.
“★” (pronounced “Blackstar”) nestles in with his kraut-favoring releases, with Bowie deferring much of the limelight to sax, flute, keys, bass, and drums.
Day eighteen of Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in Los Angeles speeds into punk territory with a fiery show led by No Age.
Catching up with the Los Angeles–based artist on the occasion of his Star Wars–themed FLOOD Gallery show
The creators behind 30 Days in LA’s iconic show posters talk about their inspiration.
“Prescient” is a word that gets tossed around often, but Maserati deserve a hearty pat on the back for coming up with a retro-rock sound about fifteen years ago.
The angel-voiced artist behind massive single “Younger” talks about overcoming fear and finding her own style.
Bigger and louder isn’t always better, and it’s impressive that such a young band has already figured this out.
“New Bermuda” is the new black (metal).