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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MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks
The Wednesday guitarist’s third solo record is a staggering refinement of no-frills songwriting that swaps the bells-and-whistles novelties of its predecessor with something more muted.
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David Gilmour, Luck and Strange
Five albums into his solo career, the Pink Floyd guitarist broaches notions of mortality with a fresh sound more angled than we’re used to hearing from his endlessly floating solo catalog.
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The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin [25th Anniversary Zoetrope Edition]
This new two-disc reissue focuses less on bonus tracks and more on visual layout, as Wayne Coyne and designer Drew Tetz expand the trippy imagery of the iconic 1999 psych-rock opus.
Mike LeSuer
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INBETWEEZER, Lucas Nathan’s newly announced follow-up to 2022’s Free Time, lands September 27 via Stones Throw.
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With their debut album out now, stefa marin alarcón shares a few favorite tracks by Empress Of, Santigold, Saul Williams, and more.
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The Chicago punks are currently on tour with The Dreaded Laramie.
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The Australian duo’s Run for Cover debut Seashell Angel Lucky Charm arrives this Friday.
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The Grand Rapids–based trio’s newly revealed collection of songs will arrive July 19 via Winspear.
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The annual festival of psych-rock, dream-pop, punk, and beyond is slated for Halloween weekend in Austin.
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From Indian Lakes’ Joe Vannucchi also breaks down all four tracks on the release, while explaining how he and Rx Bandits’ Steve Choi crafted their sound.
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The art-pop composer/pop connoisseur shares how Gil Scott-Heron, Noname, Pulp, and more paved the way for the radical message of her new album.
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The new single precedes Maria Maita-Keppeler’s new album want, arriving July 26 via Fluff & Gravy Records.
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Following their recent signing to Moshi Moshi, the sunny indie-pop duo reveals that their new album Wah!!! will arrive October 18 via the UK indie label.
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The rap trio’s experimental new collab LP—which features Current Joys and Teen Suicide, and samples M.I.A. and Carissa’s Wierd—is out now.
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The actress/musician also announced that her sophomore LP Memoir of a Sparklemuffin is slated to arrive September 13 via Sub Pop.
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The SoCal rockers’ sophomore album is out now via Enabler No. 6 Records and sonaBLAST!.
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The Vermont group’s debut album Wild Guess is scheduled to land July 26.
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King Woman
With interest in Kris Esfandiari’s music recently piqued by her brief performance in I Saw the TV Glow, we’re here to help you make sense of the songwriter’s various monikers.
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The LA via Minneapolis duo of Joe Paris Christensen and Cameron Kinghorn recently signed with Stones Throw Records.
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The Canadian collective shouts out Marshall McLuhan ahead of their third album Red Mile, which arrives July 26 via Jagjaguwar.
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The art-pop songwriter’s fifth album Kantos is out August 23 via Joyful Noise.
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The Chicago doom-metal quartet shares how krautrock, gothic new age, psychedelic prog, and more informed their follow-up to last year’s Solace LP.
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Alt-country songwriter Ryan Gustafson also answers a few questions ahead of tomorrow’s release of the first installment of his double album via Psychic Hotline.