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
The Los Angeles Issue
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The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010
Ahead of their reunion tour, the cult indie-pop band resurrects lost classics from the bittersweet era of nostalgia that encircled their eponymous 2009 debut.
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Paul Robeson, Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings
This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.
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The Weeknd, Hurry Up Tomorrow
This hypnotic, 85-minute opus which Abel Tesfaye claims will be the final statement from his long-running moniker may be his biggest bonfire to his vanities—that is, until it flames out.
Mike LeSuer
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It’s the first single from Jackson Katz’s newly announced Pure Gluttony LP, which arrives May 10 via Danger Collective.
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Ahead of Mirror, Reflect’s May 10 release via Winspear, Amy Oelsner shares a playful duet with Glenn Myers as the project’s lead single.
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Auxiliary Foxing member Austin McCutchen’s new project will release their debut EP Small Favor on April 19.
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The ambient Americana duo’s Dan Auerbach–produced record Sonido Cósmico arrives June 14 via Easy Eye Sound.
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From new wave of British heavy metal bands to Nile Rodgers, the Philly-based garage rockers play some of their own favorites that inspired their new record. Besides Thin Lizzy.
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Dave DiAngelis’ latest collection of songs, A public place, lands April 12 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.
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Valerie Caputo’s new collection of digital-age techno lands May 17 via Music Website.
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The Philly slowcore group’s second album titled (deep breath) The Iliad and The Odyssey and The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (exhale) arrives April 25 via Count Your Lucky Stars.
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Bullhead, Austin Feinstein’s first album under the moniker as a solo artist, is out now via Danger Collective.
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His new album Lurlene is out April 11.
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The Philly shoegazers return with their first new single since releasing their self-titled EP and Born Losers Records debut last year.
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Multimedia artist JJ Weihl’s debut album for RVNG arrives this week.
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The visual compiles footage of the band on their month-long trek across the US in support of last October’s I Promise EP alongside The Front Bottoms and Pronoun.
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Per a newly issued statement, leaving the band wasn’t Lenchantin’s decision.
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Jump Rope, the power-pop group’s first new record in six years, arrives May 31.
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Lexi Vega shares how Frou Frou, Baths, Charli XCX, and more informed her refreshed new EP.
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The Toronto sextet describe the new album—which arrives May 3—as “a hike along Grief Mountain with scenic lookouts.”
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The Australian jangle-pop duo’s seventh album—aptly titled Good Morning Seven—arrives March 22 via Polyvinyl, with a tour alongside Waxahatchee to follow.
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The Philly-based group’s fourth full-length expands on their sound in both directions, capturing some of their most explosive mad-dog punk and their most nuanced pop songwriting to date.
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Co-songwriters Joseph Therriault and Vincent Ford take us track by track through the project, which is out now via Topshelf Records.