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.
Phoebe Bridgers makeup: Jenna Nelson (using Smashbox Cosmetics)
Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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The Los Angeles Issue
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Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.
Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
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Hause Plants Confront Isolation with Electrifying Dream Pop on “Visual Diaries”
It’s the latest single from Portugal-based musician Guilherme Correia.
February 05, 2021
Nipsey Hussle’s “Marathon” Mixtape Gets Live Visual Album Experience
Featuring never-before-seen content, the “virtual time capsule” premieres tonight on YouTube.
February 05, 2021
Wallows Recruit Remi Wolf and Solomonophonic for “OK” Remix
The remix follows the trio’s quarantine-recorded “Remote” EP.
February 05, 2021
Hear H.E.R.’s New Golden Globe-Nominated Song “Fight for You”
The track is featured in the Shaka King–directed film “Judas and the Black Messiah.”
February 04, 2021
Hayley Williams Details New Album Coming Tomorrow
“FLOWERS for VASES / descansos” is out at midnight.
February 04, 2021
Lil Uzi Vert Got a Pink Diamond Forehead Piercing Worth Millions
“Pain Is Beauty,” indeed.
February 03, 2021
boygenius Reunites For Julien Baker’s Latest Single “Favor”
The supergroup, including Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus, jumped on the track off Baker’s forthcoming album “Little Oblivions.”
February 03, 2021
The Midnight Hours’ Adrian Younge Shares New Track “The American Negro”
Younge releases the title track of his forthcoming album and announces a multimedia project.
February 02, 2021
Watch Bully Cover PJ Harvey and Talk Mental Health
Alicia Bognanno covers “Dry” from Harvey’s 1993 album “Rid Of Me.”
February 02, 2021
Music in 2020—Very Much Unlike 2020 Itself—Was All About Fairy Tales
How everyone from Phoebe Bridgers and Soccer Mommy to Lady Gaga and Taylor Swift found escape from this hell year in fantasy.
December 21, 2020
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Jordana, “Something to Say to You”
Jordana Nye continues to experiment with crunching rock, hip-hop, and jazz into enticing three-minute morsels.
December 09, 2020
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Miley Cyrus, “Plastic Hearts”
The classic rock–indebted LP is a delicious blend of sugary pop and cathartic rock.
November 30, 2020
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Megan Thee Stallion, “Good News”
From her sharp delivery and bite-me bravado, Meg flexes at 150 percent on her debut album.
November 24, 2020
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Told Slant, “Point the Flashlight and Walk”
Felix Walworth’s third LP documents some of the most massive and complex sounds they’ve ever dreamed up.
November 17, 2020
In Conversation
In Conversation: Suuns Discuss Pursuing New Ideas on Their Experimental “Fiction” EP
Ben Shemie and Liam O’Neill talk covering Zappa, becoming a conceptual band, and the restrictions of the LP format.
October 29, 2020
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Adrianne Lenker, “Songs” + “Instrumentals”
The tracks on the Big Thief vocalist’s double album are warm and spacious with high ceilings.
October 26, 2020
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Kevin Morby, “Sundowner”
Morby’s sixth album is both cosmic and terrestrial, with tracks seeped in death and change.
October 19, 2020
Digital CoverIn Conversation
H.E.R. and Cordae Will Lead You to Truth
The two songwriters talk collaboration, inspiration, and fighting the good fight.
October 06, 2020
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Nana Adjoa, “Big Dreamings Ants”
This debut LP illustrates enthralling production, thoughtful suspicion, and poetic compassion.
September 25, 2020
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Lomelda, “Hannah”
“Hannah” is a capsule of acceptance, frustration, and growth.
September 09, 2020
