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.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard, Neptunes
Each track on the electronic composer and Hot Chip leader’s debut EP together has a unique rhythmic texture, with the constant theme being a wall of bass that transports you to a celestial space.
New Order, Brotherhood [Definitive Edition]
With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Josh Tillman focuses his lens on death on his darkly comedic sixth album as eclectic instrumentation continues to buttress his folky chamber pop beyond ’70s pastiche.
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.