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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Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.
Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
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PREMIERE: Priests Bring Their Spooky Energy to Pickathon’s Slab Sessions with “Leila 20”
DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”
February 02, 2018
Reviews
Ty Segall, “Freedom’s Goblin”
Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.
January 26, 2018
More Than Joke, Purpose: Did Das Racist Accidentally Fix Underground Hip-Hop?
Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”
January 10, 2018
PREMIERE: Kal Marks Thaws Out on “Today I Walked…”
The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”
January 08, 2018
PREMIERE: Ty Segall Melts Faces with “Warm Hands” for Pickathon’s Slab Sessions
With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.
December 01, 2017
Reviews
OCS, “Memory of a Cut Off Head”
With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.
November 27, 2017
PREMIERE: Sonny Smith Gets Lost in “Pictures of You” Video
The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.
November 10, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
But What Do They Really Do in the Shadows?: A Brief History of Empathy in Vampire Film
Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.
October 27, 2017
Film + TVStaff Picks
Reconsidering Rear Window Ethics in TV’s First Golden Age
What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.
October 19, 2017
PREMIERE: Cut Worms Pays Tribute to Lou Reed on “Song of the Highest Tower”
Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.
October 12, 2017
PREMIERE: Hear Kelly Moran’s New Single “Sodalis” from Field Works’ “Ultrasonic”
Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.
March 06, 1920
RSVP: Levi’s #IShapeMyWorld @ Studio 525
Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…
March 04, 1919
RSVP: In Conversation with Roy Choi
Roy Choi talks with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food.”
December 13, 1918
