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.
Melanie Robinson
Revisiting the profundity and shortcomings of the bayou-soaked buddy-cop crime-drama a decade later.
The Minnesota-based indie-pop quartet walk us track by track through their impeccably titled fourth record, out now via Psychic Hotline.
The final installment of Ti West’s slasher trilogy features moments of grotesquery, spectacle, and levity—but most importantly, it’s damn fun to watch.
With his second album out now, Sven Gamsky talks collaboration, fame, and knowing when a song’s reached its final form.
Descending upon LA this Thursday and running through May 12, here’s a guide to some of the hidden gems among the event’s lineup.
With Beyoncé’s yeehaw era launching this week, we explore the genre’s long-suppressed and -overwritten history of Black performance.