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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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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First Listen
Bleary Eyed Find Their Higher Path on New Single “Easy”
The Philly shoegazers’ new LP of the same name will arrive on July 25 via Born Losers Records.
June 26, 2025
Playlist
Band of Skulls’ “Cold Fame” Influences Playlist
Russell Marsden shares which songs inspired the writing on his band’s first three albums, all of which are getting re-released together this week in a brand new box set.
June 25, 2025
First Listen
Tchotchke Weave Together Three Sob Stories on New Single “Poor Girl”
The new track introduces the trio’s Lemon Twigs–produced sophomore album Playin’ Dumb, out September 5.
June 25, 2025
First Listen
Briscoe Pay Homage to Their Texas Heritage on New Single “Roughnecks”
Austin-based duo Philip Lupton and Truett Heintzelman will release their new album Heat of July on September 19 via ATO Records.
June 25, 2025
First Listen
Lathe of Heaven Explore Loss, Love, and Devotion at the End of the World on New Track “Aurora”
The post-punk quartet also announces that their sophomore album of the same name will arrive on August 29 via Sacred Bones.
June 24, 2025
First Listen
OK Cool Illustrate Their Polished Lo-Fi Sound with DIY Video for New Single “Safety Car”
The Chicago duo of Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller will release their debut album Chit Chat on August 1.
June 23, 2025
Non-Musical Influences
5 Non-Musical Influences on Tropical Fuck Storm’s Latest Psychedelic Opus “Fairyland Codex”
A very candid Gareth Liddiard shares how neurosis and delusion helped to define the Australian collective’s fourth LP, out now via Fire Records.
June 20, 2025
First Listen
San Gabriel Confronts FOMO on Vibrant New Synthpop Tune “Alone in My Room”
Former Whiskey Shivers member James Bookert also shares a live performance video of the track from Emigrant Lake in Oregon.
June 20, 2025
First Listen
Blush Explore Unholy Obsession in Video for New Single “X My Heart”
Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever, the Singaporean dream-pop trio’s first album for Kanine Records, will arrive August 1.
June 18, 2025
First Listen
All Under Heaven and High. Team Up for Split Single via Sunday Drive Records
The New Jersey shoegaze bands’ respective tracks “Moving On” and “Someone You Adore” are out today.
June 17, 2025
Track by Track
Theo Croker Walks Us Through the Sophisticated Emotions Behind “Dream Manifest”
The trumpeter and jazz-fusion composer breaks down his spiritual new project, out now via Dom Recs.
June 13, 2025
First Listen
Ramonda Hammer Offer Up a Lifeline with New Track “The Panic”
The LA trios return with their second new single from their forthcoming EP.
June 13, 2025
Playlist
Quinton Barnes’ Queer Voices in Hip-Hop Playlist
With the arrival of Black Noise, the Montreal-based artist’s third record in nine months, Barnes shares 11 boldly pioneering songs within the realm of rap.
June 12, 2025
First Listen
Common Holly Speaks to the Fragility of Human Life on New Single “The Wood From the Sail”
Brigitte Naggar’s first new album in six years Anything Glass arrives June 13 via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records.
June 12, 2025
First Listen
Jamie Lidell Searches for a Sense of Certainty on New Single “How Do I Land”
The piano-centric Places of Unknowing, the songwriter’s first solo record in nearly a decade, arrives this summer.
June 11, 2025
Playlist
Sedona’s “Getting Into Heaven” Influences Playlist
After releasing her debut solo album, the LA-based songwriter shares how Liz Phair, Local H, Ween, and more helped shape her vision.
June 10, 2025
First Listen
Native Sun Are Down to Clown in Video for New Single “Squash”
The Brooklyn rockers returned earlier this year with new material teasing a future release.
June 10, 2025
Track by Track
Black Moth Super Rainbow Walk Us Through Their Characteristically Disorienting New LP “Soft New Magic Dream”
Tom Fec shares how each song on the band’s first new album in eight years “took either years or a few days” to write.
June 06, 2025
Track by Track
CIVIC Walk Us Through Each Track on Their New Noise-Rock Death March “Chrome Dipped”
The Australian group’s third LP is out today via ATO Records.
May 30, 2025
First Listen
Imaad Wasif Teams Up with Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno and Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Brian Chase for Bonnie “Prince” Billy Cover
“I See a Darkness” marks the first new music released through Wasif’s Voidist Records, which will now be home to the artist’s back catalog.
May 30, 2025
