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 Baltimore emcee’s new single hits streaming services tomorrow.
Phoenix / photo by Daniel Cavazos
How much should we read into the burning Phoenix tee in the song’s visualizer?
The clip arrives with a playlist curated by the Sacramento-based songwriter celebrating sacred spaces.
Eva Moolchan shares eleven tracks she’s had on repeat leading up to the release of “Happy Birthday.”
The Minneapolis punk trio’s “I’m Glad We’re Friends” will be out via Count Your Lucky Stars.
The self-described “loser rock” band also reveal a new visual for “Selfish.”
Isabel Olive pairs her recent single “Afraid of Horses” with eleven more equine-themed tracks.
It’s the first of two EPs the Haitian-American emcee has promised to release this summer.
The MN punks’ debut full-length dropped last week via Forged Artifacts.
With no new music from TV on the Radio since 2014, it’s time to get familiar with the vocalist’s film and TV work.
Amélie Rousseaux celebrates one year of “Waves” with an experimental new take on the single.
Kenney performs the single from her newly released album “Sucker’s Lunch” in Oakland.
The debut single from the LA-based songwriter arrives with a goofy—if not relatable—visual.
Michael Hansford’s latest single—written immediately post-“Touchstone”—will be his last for some time.
The record is officially out tomorrow via Mama Bird Recording Co.
It’s the Brooklyn band’s second album, out soon via Good Eye Records.
Morimoto will set the stream live on his YouTube channel at 6 p.m. PST tonight.
James Wallace’s new record “The World Only Ends When You Die” drops October 23.
Jessica Dobson shares a self-animated lyric video for the single (which also includes guitar tabs).
Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.
