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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Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.
The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.
OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
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dayaway Shares a Song for Tonight’s Super Blue Moon with New Single “blue summer moon”
In addition to the full EP of the same name from CLAVVS’s Amber Renee and Graham Marsh dropping today, the duo share a video for the title track celebrating the waning days of summer.
August 30, 2023
Playlist
Maple Glider’s Playlist for Long Drives Out of the City and Into the Countryside
Tori Zietsch’s sophomore album I Get Into Trouble lands October 13 via Partisan.
August 29, 2023
First Listen
Atka Explores Our Relentless Growth Into the Collective “Other” on New Track “Desiring Machines”
London- and Berlin-based musician Sarah Neumann will release her debut EP The Eye Against the Ashen Sky on November 3.
August 29, 2023
Who Is She? Share 13 Movies That Exude Goddess Energy
From Run Lola Run to Mamma Mia!, there is no disputing the goddess-ness of the films selected by Seattle’s most banned-from-Jeff-Bezo’s-Climate-Pledge-Arena supergroup.
August 28, 2023
First Listen
Uni Boys Rationalize Young Love on New Single “Two Years”
Produced by The Lemon Twigs’ D’Addario brothers, Buy This Now! arrives October 13 via Curation Records.
August 28, 2023
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Lydia Loveless Shares a Self-Deprecating Postcard From the Road with New Single “Sex and Money”
Arriving with a comedic video, the track lands ahead of the Columbus-based songwriter’s new LP Nothing’s Gonna Stand in My Way Again.
August 28, 2023
First Listen
Oh Land Combats Existentialism with Synthpop on New Track “Bucket List”
Danish songwriter Nanna Øland Fabricius’ sixth LP Loop Soup arrives September 29 via her own imprint Tusk or Tooth.
August 24, 2023
Playlist
Soft Palms’ Happy Sundays Festival Playlist
Julia Kugel and Scott Montoya, the husband-and-wife duo behind the free Long Beach event, share a handful of tracks from the artists taking the stage this weekend.
August 23, 2023
First Listen
DRÄGER Embrace Primal Summer Nights on New Synthwave Track “Midnight Mystery”
The single was originally intended for an Italians Do It Better comp.
August 23, 2023
Essay
I Miss Shitgaze, Man
On nostalgia, bygone sub-subgenres, and, ultimately, the increasingly fallible state of music archiving.
August 22, 2023
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Sea Lemon Contemplates Forgiveness on Day Wave–Featuring New Single “Breakdown”
Natalie Lew’s dream-pop EP Stop at Nothing arrives this Friday via Luminelle Recordings.
August 22, 2023
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Mermaid Call Out Performative Allies on New Single “Purr”
Brittany Campbell and Candace Quarrels’ debut album Iridescence will arrive later this year.
August 21, 2023
Track by Track
Dizzy Take Us Track by Track Through Through Their Bittersweet Self-Titled Record
Katie Munshaw shares how friendships, isolation, and expectations for adult life shaped the Ontario group’s latest project, out now via Royal Mountain Records.
August 18, 2023
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Le Couleur Straddle the Line Between Reality and Illusion on New Single “À la rencontre de Barbara”
The Quebecois nu-disco trio’s latest record Comme dans un penthouse arrives September 22 via Lisbon Lux Records.
August 18, 2023
Britta Phillips and Kramer Share an Aptly Surreal Visual for Collaborative Track “Dream #3”
Created by Kramer, the video recycles footage from Jean Renoir’s 1928 film The Little Match Girl.
August 17, 2023
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Juicebumps Become Part of Something They Don’t Understand in Video for New Track “Wiggler”
The horror-B-movie visual arrives with news of the San Francisco post-punks’ new album Jumbo, landing October 13 via Rocks in Your Head Records and Time Room Records.
August 16, 2023
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Miso Extra’s “50/50” Is a Reminder to Enjoy the Ride
The London-based musician’s new EP MSG is out this Friday via Transgressive Records.
August 16, 2023
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PAWS Enter the Disenchanted Forest in Video for First Single From New Self-Titled LP
“Disenchanted” arrives ahead of the Scottish punks’ fifth record on October 27 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co. + Wish Fulfillment Press.
August 16, 2023
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Ovef Ow Depict a Day in the Life of a Lonely Wooden Hand in Video for New Track “Daylight”
The song will appear on their debut album Vs. the Worm, arriving August 25 via What’s for Breakfast? Records.
August 15, 2023
Sufjan Stevens Goes Full “Sufjan Stevens” on New Single “So You Are Tired”
The single arrives ahead of Javelin, his first indie-folk release since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell.
August 14, 2023
