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.
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
The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Mike LeSuer
The Montreal-based lo-fi project’s sophomore album Glossover arrives February 10 via Friends of Friends.
Bonnie Bloomgarden talks us through the single from the band’s forthcoming album Island in the Sky and its darkly surreal Arturo Baston–directed video.
Frank Ocean / photo by Joyce Jude
The full lineup was revealed today, which also includes Gorillaz, Rosalía, Björk, and many more.
The acoustic take arrives ahead of the Minneapolis-based group’s 10th anniversary reissue of their debut EP of the same name.
The Scottish experimental trio’s fourth album Heavy Heavy arrives February 3 via Ninja Tune.
The 20th anniversary reissue features a MONO remix on red and white LPs and demos, as well as a supplementary DVD and 28-page booklet.
The track announces their ninth studio album Continue as a Guest, as well as their signing to Merge Records.
The Danish quintet’s album Keep Up the Good Work arrives February 17 via Bella Union.
The electro-industrial songwriter shares lead single “So Hard to Tell” ahead of the record’s March 24 release.
*Squinting at a 240p Polyphonic Spree live video* Is that Annie Clark?
The song arrives ahead of the Swedish group’s new LP Flicker, out March 17 via Fire Records.
The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.
The Chicago-based artist shares the first cut from Side B of his new project Then Spring.
El Bueno y el Malo, the duo’s first LP for Easy Eye Sound, arrived back in October.
The LA-based alt-rockers have more new music planned for 2023 in addition to a West Coast tour alongside FIDLAR.
The shoegaze collective shares that their new album Happy in Here will arrive February 3 via Honey Suckle Sound.
Aesop Rock / photo by Andy Sawyer
The track aims to raise funds for a pair of DIY skateparks in Dayton, Ohio.
The GRAMMY-nominated saxophonist shares a few thematic influences ahead of the release of The Universe’s Wildest Dream on January 13.
The Chicago group shares the opening track from their fourth LP MOCK, out this Friday.
13 tracks to play around the Chrismos tree.
