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.
Mac Pogue
Junior Boys know how to maintain their inexplicable sense of cool—all it takes is the right amount of withholding.
“Pond Scum”’s bare aesthetic sounds a bit like Oldham wandered in front of a microphone at the BBC studios.
The Okkervil River frontman looks back at his band’s breakthrough LP ten years later.
What are live albums for, anyway?
Oneohtrix Point Never revels in making music that surfaces elements of humanity hidden within the mundane detritus of our culture machine.
West Coast noisy garage maven Chris Woodhouse recorded “Dopers,” sanding down some of their previous records’ rough edges in order to emphasize others.