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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Preoccupations, Ill at Ease
The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.
Provoker, Mausoleum
Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.
Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.
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Track by Track
One Step Closer Walk Us Through Their Hardcore Debut “This Place You Know”
Vocalist Ryan Savitski reflects on each track on the LP, out now via Run for Cover.
September 24, 2021
Playlist
14 Tracks That Got Shortly Through Sophomore Year of Design School
With their band’s debut album arriving this week, Alexandria Maniak shares a playlist of the circa-2016 emo that gave the project its legs.
September 23, 2021
Godcaster Announce New EP “Saltergasp,” Share First Single “Hecky Skelters”
The NYC-based punk ensemble’s latest project arrives November 5 via Ramp Local.
September 23, 2021
Hear an Early Stream of the Debut LP from OHMME’s Macie Stewart
“Mouth Full of Glass” officially drops this Friday via Orindal Records.
September 22, 2021
Playlist
An Intro to Francophone Music with Hubert Lenoir
With his new LP “PICTURA DE IPSE: Musique Directe” out now, the experimental musician made a playlist of his favorite tracks by French and Québécois artists.
September 20, 2021
Track by Track
LURK Take Us Through Their Raging Debut Album “Around the Sun” Track by Track
The Chicago-based punks are also premiering a visual for their track “Sterilizer.”
September 17, 2021
Dean Wareham Isn’t Selling Out on New Single “Cashing In”
Wareham channels Michael Rother and Pete Hook on the latest single from “I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A.,” out October 15.
September 17, 2021
Chelsea Wolfe
Substance 2021 Lineup Announced, feat. Chelsea Wolfe, HEALTH, Nitzer Ebb, Lingua Ignota, and More
The three-night industrial and new wave festival will kick off November 26 at Downtown LA’s Belasco theater.
September 16, 2021
Cedric Noel Confirms Allegiances in His “Allies” Video
The Montreal-based songwriter’s new album “Hang Time” arrives November 12 via Joyful Noise and Forward Music Group.
September 16, 2021
Reviews
Injury Reserve, “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”
The amorphous second album from the rap group focuses on unease-ambient soundscapes that swallow the vocals into the soundtrack.
September 15, 2021
Playlist
20 Songs You Can Find Bad Bad Hats Walking To
With her band’s latest LP “Walkman” dropping this week, Kerry Alexander shares a playlist fit for your portable music player.
September 13, 2021
Track by Track
Slothrust Break Down Their Spiritual New LP “Parallel Timeline” Track by Track
Leah Wellbaum’s latest album is out now via Dangerbird Records.
September 10, 2021
Track by Track
Molly Drag Walks Us Through His Stripped-Back New Album “Resemble Another”
Michael Hansford’s latest slowcore LP is out now through Terrible Records.
September 10, 2021
Playlist
Stream Amyl and The Sniffers’ “Random Shit We Like Cause No One Knows How to Follow Basic Instructions” Playlist
With “Comfort to Me” out this week, the Australian group shared some songs that, yeah, have very little to do with that.
September 09, 2021
Ehiorobo Is All About That Cheese on “Munstar”
The genre-bending New Jersey artist touches on hustle culture in his latest single for Grind Select.
September 09, 2021
LNDFK and Pink Siifu Get Dissociative on New Single “How Do We Know We’re Alive”
Following her recent single with Chester Watson, the Italian-Tunisian artist continues to tease her debut album.
September 09, 2021
Watch Guided by Voices’ Channel-Surfing Video for New Single “Dance of Gurus”
The group’s latest LP, “It’s Not Them. It Can’t Be Them. It Is Them!,” arrives October 22.
September 08, 2021
Super American Celebrate Ego Death in the Video for New Single “RIP JEFF”
Matt Cox and Patrick Feeley kill off their ego, Jeff, in the latest single from the pair’s forthcoming LP “SUP,” expected out October 22 via Wax Bodega.
September 08, 2021
Claire Cronin Has an Out-of-Body Experience on the Title Track to Her Forthcoming LP “Bloodless”
“Bloodless” arrives November 12 via Orindal Records.
September 07, 2021
Oberhofer on What “What Does It Mean to Me?” Means to Him
Along with debuting a new video for the track, Brad Oberhofer dives into his new philosophies which inspired the single.
September 03, 2021
