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.
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Phoebe Bridgers hair: Lauren Palmer-Smith
MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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The Los Angeles Issue
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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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First Listen
Deathchant Feed Their Paranoia in Video for New Single “Chariot”
The LA metal quartet’s third album Thrones lands October 13 via RidingEasy Records.
September 26, 2023
First Listen
Calling Hours Announce Debut LP “Say Less,” Share New Track “Curtain Call”
The new project featuring Farside’s Popeye Vogelsang and members of Don’t Sleep will release November 10 via Revelation Records.
September 26, 2023
Reviews
Sydney Sprague, “somebody in hell loves you”
The Phoenix-based songwriter puts her songwriting personality front and center on her sophomore record, once again writing about heartache for all the right reasons.
September 15, 2023
First Listen
Fat Mike Shares an Early Stream of String Renditions LP “Fat Mike Gets Strung Out”
The NOFX vocalist previews his surprisingly beautiful collection of string arrangements in collaboration with Baz the Frenchman before the LP officially drops this Friday.
September 13, 2023
Essay
Yesterday Is Here: Tom Waits’ Disruption of the Notion of Time in the ’80s
With new reissues of Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years out now, we revisit the songwriting icon’s mid-career run when he leaned into his eccentricities—and changed the course of his career as a result.
September 06, 2023
First Listen
Empty Country Pay Homage to the Late Silver Jews Frontman on New Track “David”
Former Cymbals Eat Guitars vocalist Joseph D’Agostino’s second album with the project arrives November 3 via Get Better Records (and Tough Love Recs in the UK).
September 06, 2023
Track by Track
Roselit Bone Break Down Their Regenerational New LP “Ofrenda” Track by Track
Charlotte McCaslin goes deep on a record about coming to terms with being a living thing in a dying world.
August 25, 2023
First Listen
Crasher Cools Things Down on Latest Single “Iced Tea”
Exasperation drummer Dave Mead’s debut solo LP Speaking Terms will arrive October 10.
August 23, 2023
Track by Track
The Xcerts Walk Us Through Their Expectation-Defying New LP “Learning How to Live and Let Go”
Murray Macleod takes us track by track through the Brighton punks’ journey of self-rediscovery, which is out now via UNFD.
August 18, 2023
First Listen
shallow pools Call Out Shitty Audience Behavior on New Single “Nightmare”
The Boston-based quartet’s debut album I Think About It All the Time lands October 13 via Equal Vision Records.
August 17, 2023
Reviews
The Hives, “The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons”
On their first record in 11 years, the Swedish garage-rock revivalists have as much gusto, energy, and attitude as they did on their 1997 debut.
August 09, 2023
Divide and Dissolve on the Internal and External Liberation of “Systemic”
Takiaya Reed discusses how the joy of creation adds a personal layer to the anti-colonialist drone-metal project’s mission statement.
August 09, 2023
First Listen
Clowns Share a Love Letter to the Music Scene with Song-That-Almost-Wasn’t “Thanks 4 Nothing”
The track arrives ahead of the Melbourne punks’ fifth LP Endless, out October 20 via Fat Wreck Chords.
August 08, 2023
First Listen
Mercy Union Dig to the Heart of Human Frailty on New Single “Be Honest”
The track was recorded during the same sessions as last year’s White Tiger LP.
August 04, 2023
First Listen
Elle Belle Soundtracks a Loss (and Recapturing) of Innocence on New Single “Saturday”
Christopher Pappas’ new collection of songs How Do I Feel? arrives September 1 via Little Record Company.
August 04, 2023
Reviews
ANOHNI and the Johnsons, “My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross”
Executed with precision and grace, the group’s first release in over a decade blends the darkly political with the profoundly personal.
July 06, 2023
Militarie Gun at Stereogum Range Life party at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Breaking
Militarie Gun Are Taking an Honest Approach to Hardcore
Ian Shelton discusses the various roads which led to the LA punks’ debut LP, Life Under the Gun.
June 20, 2023
Reviews
AJJ, “Disposable Everything”
The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.
May 26, 2023
Track by Track
The Dirty Nil Take Us Through Their Raw, Back-to Basics LP “Free Rein to Passions” Track by Track
The Canadian noise-punks’ fourth record is out now via Dine Alone Records.
May 26, 2023
First Listen
Corvair Share a Dadaist Collage of Odd Road Trip Details with New Single “Shady Town”
The duo’s second album Bound to Be will arrive June 23.
May 17, 2023
