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 “World You Want to See” single soundtracks footage of their U.S. tour with Have Mercy.
Woodson Black has also shared July 17 as the new release date for his debut, “Violence in a Quiet Mind.”
The Ontario-based songwriter shares an affectionate video for the “Born Again” opener.
Expect to see more Hi, How Are You? aliens at the skatepark when it reopens.
The LA rockers unleash a new single and video.
The Single Mothers vocalist also chats with Stefan Babcock about his recent tour with PUP.
TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe / photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Revisiting the very weird seeds that sprouted a handful of decade-defining artists.
Animator Rozalina Burkova brings the “Where Have All My Friends Gone?” single to life with a staticky visual.
The Brooklyn new wave trio offer another taste of their debut record “Introduction, Presence.”
Grimes / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The couple take a stab at cracking the top 50 most bizarre headlines of 2020.
ICYMI, the Cleveland rockers quietly uploaded 27 live recordings to their Bandcamp page last Friday.
The Oklahoman rockers cover the Texas songwriter for a movie called “Arkansas.”
The Michigan punks share one final video from the session, featuring “Melee”’s energetic closer.
White Denim
“I Don’t Understand Rock and Roll” and “Work” precede the remotely recorded album.
Alex Luciano details each track on the band’s sophomore record, out today via Frenchkiss.
Honus Honus spills some words on the seventeen-track LP, out today via Sub Pop.
Before dropping her new LP tomorrow, she praises releases from Speedy Ortiz, Animal Collective, and others.
Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.
The New Jersey punks’ first NSR release arrives as a limited 7-inch.
The songwriter discusses his sprawling debut and his relationship with Sacred Bones.
