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.
Sadie Sartini Garner
The funk pioneer succumbed to cancer at the age of 72.
Get on up.
The Swedish trio give us the highlights of their between-album work.
Space-age sadness from the nation’s capitol.
From the group’s upcoming “Calico Review.”
The man responsible for the look of Afrobeat tells us about his relationship with Fela Kuti.
No sunscreen required.
Under the rosé glow of the Pasadena sky, the two national sides opened play at the Copa America Centenario.
How do you follow up one of the most mythical records of the past twenty years? You blow out that beat.
It’s the first new recording from the group since last year’s “Multi-Love.”
West Coast punk makes it way to the Jersey Shore.
The ambient-drone single is taken from the duo’s “The Effects are Cumulative,” out June 10.
The Atlanta quartet’s “Freedom” is their first new record since 2011.
He did a good-ass job.
From the British soul man’s Daptone debut, “Hold On!”
The Indiana auteur previews his third solo LP, “Casino Drone.”
U! S! A! U! S! A!
The Oregon festival’s Spring Season carries on.
With the release of the “Burn the Witch” video, the group turn distribution into its own political art.
In the first edition of our new column, we take a closer look at the Houston Thai-funk group’s debut LP.