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 power pop songwriter lives every artist’s dream and ranks ten of his stunning “Born Hot” self-portraits for us.
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The two-song pairing is the latest meditation on late capitalism from the Have a Nice Life side-project.
The folksy songwriter shares the first video from his podcast-released new album “Are You Feelin’ It.”
The title track to the genreless rapper’s latest LP plays on repeat to accommodate its lengthy visual.
The Phil Collins classic gets a spooky makeover for Dacus’s newly announced “2019” EP.
The reinvigorated Boston dance-punks look ahead on their latest single from their forthcoming “What Would the Odd Do?” EP.
The pulsing single is the third cut from their forthcoming Dais Records debut, “Private Life.”
The first official single from the two-day old album comes to life with a Johnny Jewel–directed video.
While touring LP “Braindrops,” the Australian band shares their secrets to being a rare innovative rock band in 2019.
The Portland-based synthwave group gives us something a bit more substantial to chew on as we anticipate “Dear Tommy.”
The “Ski” single comes to life with a lively black-and-white visual.
The fourth and final single precedes an October 4 release date for “Make Yourself at Home.”
Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.
The Irish noise-makers dig into the warped sounds of their experimental follow-up to 2015’s “Holding Hands with Jamie.”
The “Real Stories” track gets the ska treatment for Jeremy Hunter’s debut collection of covers.
Reggie Watts joins the band for a synthed-out rendition of “Daddi.”
The National / photo by Molly Adams
The vintage analog recordings taken from a pair of the band’s 2018 sets at the Greek Theatre will be released November 29.
The Chicago songwriter and Ratboys guitarist teases his second solo album with a breezy power-pop jam.
The track from Friel’s recent “Fanfare” LP gets a “hideous” visual courtesy of digital artist Andy Wallace.
The second single from “Mass” sees the duo take a darker approach to New Orleans–inspired jazz.
