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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M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.
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.
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Devo
Devo Announce Career Retrospective “50 Years of De-Evolution (1973-2023)”
In the midst of their final tour run, the new wave trailblazers will release a box set of hits and rarities on October 20.
September 06, 2023
Björk Brings “Fossora” Track “victimhood” to Life with New Animated Video
The visual debuted over the weekend at a performance in Lisbon.
September 05, 2023
Nirvana’s “In Utero” Set to Receive 30th Anniversary Reissue Featuring Over 50 Additional Tracks
The remastered LP comes with a handful of B-sides and several full-concert live recordings, including their final set performed in Seattle in 1994.
September 05, 2023
First Listen
Hit Bargain Underscore the Bizarre Anxieties of Late Capitalism in Video for New Track “Degree Decree”
The LA fourpiece featuring members of Beach Fossils and Cold Beat reveals their new LP A Dog a Deer a Seal will drop November 10 via Get Better Records.
September 05, 2023
First Listen
Brad stank Takes Us to Inisherin in the Video for New Single “Natty Wine”
The track will appear on the Liverpool-based songwriter’s newly announced LP In the Midst of You, arriving in January.
September 05, 2023
Playlist
Field Medic’s “light is gone 2” Influences Playlist
Kevin Patrick Sullivan shares how everyone from Bladee to Milli Vanilli helped shape his beat-bolstered new LP.
August 31, 2023
First Listen
zzzahara Combats iPhones’ Constant Reminders of Past Relationships on New Track “Hey Familiar Face”
An animated video for the single arrives ahead of the songwriter’s new LP Tender, which drops September 22 on Lex Records.
August 31, 2023
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
First Listen
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
First Listen
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
First Listen
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
