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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Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.
Die Spitz, Something to Consume
With their Will Yip–produced debut, the Austin punk quartet has something to say about postmodern society in 11 metal-fusion tracks ripe with political turmoil and skatepark angst.
Shame, Cutthroat
The UK rockers don’t mince words on their fourth studio album, pairing their infectious proto-punk grooves with nakedly hedonistic lyrics.
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Beck at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles / photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Events
LIVE: Beck’s LA Return Is Triumphant at The Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles (9/21/2014)
This weekend was something of a homecoming for Beck Hansen; the forty-four-year-old Angeleno played two back-to-back shows at downtown Los Angeles’s Orpheum Theatre, where his hometown fans were treated to a two-hour set spanning a twenty-year career as varied and unpredictable as the man himself.
September 22, 2014
2014; photo credit Tobias Centerwall
LISTEN: Swedish Supergroup Amason Reveals New Single, Sultry and Momentous “Duvan”
Amason—a five-piece comprised of members of Miike Snow, Dungen, Little Majorette, Hajen, and Idiot Wind—has a roster that reads like…
September 17, 2014
Still from SBTRKT “Look Away” interactive site
WATCH: SBTRKT Releases Interactive Video Site for New Single “Look Away”
SBTRKT (the masked alter-ego of Brit musician Aaron Jerome) has released an eerie, interactive music video website into the world for his new track “Look Away” featuring Caroline Polachek of Chairlift on vocals.
September 15, 2014
2014. Ariel Pink press photo by Sasha Eisenman.
LISTEN: Ariel Pink Announces Double Album “pom pom”
The L.A. artist releases modern love letter with new track, “Put Your Number In My Phone.”
September 08, 2014
Photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Art & CultureEvents
LIVE: Acrobats and Artists Light Up the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles for the Art of Elysium: Genesis (9/5/14)
The Art of Elysium’s sixth-annual Genesis fundraiser was a collaboration of epic proportions between some of the art world’s biggest names and promising musicians, all for the cause of healing the world through art.
September 08, 2014
2014. “Jimi: All Is By My Side” trailer
Film + TV
WATCH: Catch a First Glimpse of André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix in “Jimi: All Is by My Side” Trailer
André Benjamin (better known to us as Outkast’s André 3000) is having a busy 2014—he and Outkast comrade Big Boi…
July 07, 2014
2014. Wye Oak press photo by Shervin Lainez
LISTEN: Wye Oak Release Their Latest Synth-Folk Single “Logic of Color”
Wye Oak have released the latest single “Logic of Color” from their excellent album Shriek, and it’s full of the…
July 01, 2014
WATCH: Nick Waterhouse Premieres Post-Party Daze Video for “Sleeping Pills”
The new video for Nick Waterhouse’s “Sleeping Pills” (off his new album Holly) will either make you nostalgic for the…
June 30, 2014
photo by Jeff Elstone
LISTEN: Zola Jesus Is Electric On “Dangerous Days”
Zola Jesus’s new album is titled Taiga. For those of you who don’t remember learning about biomes in middle school,…
June 23, 2014
