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.
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Joe Goddard, Neptunes
Each track on the electronic composer and Hot Chip leader’s debut EP together has a unique rhythmic texture, with the constant theme being a wall of bass that transports you to a celestial space.
New Order, Brotherhood [Definitive Edition]
With one side dedicated to icy compu-disco and the other tied to the band’s beyond-punk origin story, this expanded reissue brings new order to the 1986 curio with live recordings, remixes, and more.
Father John Misty, Mahashmashana
Josh Tillman focuses his lens on death on his darkly comedic sixth album as eclectic instrumentation continues to buttress his folky chamber pop beyond ’70s pastiche.
Natasha Aftandilians
Ben Gibbard and co. make their first major appearance in LA since moving back to Seattle in 2012.
You can’t blame Cayucas for heading back to the summer-fun well and trying to draw every last bit of water that’s in there.
Erik Jensen inhabits the mind of the famed music critic—without the Romilar.
Constant feelings of déjà vu aside, “The Fool” is a florid romp that can be enjoyed without the full-on guilty pleasure aftertaste left by Weaver’s sickly sweet peers.
Think less louche despair, more grandiose rock ambition, but just as many leather jackets as before.
Six years and another dare—write twenty songs in twenty-four hours—later, the singer-songwriter’s second LP Assembling was born.
Jacob Dillan Summers discusses his conservative past, the beginnings of Avid Dancer, and what it took to produce his excellent debut LP, “1st Bath.”
Psychedelic surf-rock in outer space—sounds like a lot of fun, doesn’t it?
While his intentions are pure and his messages sound, the LP finds Moss unfortunately falling somewhere in between the spectrum of his obvious influences of Chet Faker and James Blake.
While there might be other trademarked “Songs of the Summer,” none will effectively capture the feeling of the carefree season as well as this.
Born into a family of farmers in Iowa, William Elliott Whitmore learned early on to translate his knowledge of diversifying crops…
If Marina and The Diamonds’ 2012 “Electra Heart” was an delicious tart, then “Froot” is a simple red apple begging to be picked.
Named appropriately for a mythological creature brought to life from dirt and clay, “Golem” is a solid slab of relentless psych-rock aggression.
The Icelandic firebrand has released the first video off of her latest album “Vulnicura.”
“Before the World Was Big” is out June 2 via Wichita Recordings.
2014’s Lost in Alphaville saw the much-anticipated return of The Rentals, a band with a notorious revolving door policy for band members with…
Omaha, Nebraska’s Twinsmith have spent the last year recording new music and opening for Mac DeMarco and their Saddle Creek…
Guro Gikling and Richard O’Flynn, two-thirds of All We Are, discuss the beginnings and passions of the multi-national band and their melodic, subtly seductive debut album.
Chaz Bundick shines some light on the darkness of death in the latest Toro Y Moi video.
The Irish band sample the best of every musical decade for their latest track.