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.
Saint Etienne, The Night
Over 30 years after their debut, the Vaseline-lensed electro-pop trio still titillates without any consideration of boundaries as they continue their recent shift toward spectral-sounding gravitas.
Daft Punk, Discovery [Interstella 5555 Edition]
Reissued in honor of its complementary anime film’s 20th anniversary, the French house duo’s breakout LP feels like a time capsule for a brief period of pre-9/11 optimism.
The Coward Brothers, The Coward Brothers
Inspired by Christopher Guest’s recent radio play reviving Elvis Costello and T Bone Burnett’s 1985 fictional band, this playful debut album proves that this inside joke still has legs.
Nate Rogers
“Teens of Style” is out the day before Halloween via Matador
The cover was originally part of Merge’s twenty-fifth anniversary comp “Or Thousands of Prizes.”
Maybe the Cubs actually will win the World Series this year… Ha, just kidding.
Morgan Creek, the production company owning the rights, have responded by promising not to remake the film, but have said nothing of sequels.
“…and out steps the twenty-five carat blonde transvestite with a two-dollar wristwatch…”
“As you can see, the real deal with Waylon Smithers is that he’s Mr. Burns’ assistant. He’s in his early forties, is unmarried, and currently resides in Springfield. Thanks for asking!”
At Sunset Sound in Hollywood—just one of the twelve legendary music studios involved in the Rubber Tracks global initiative—we talked with Beach Youth, the pride of Caen, France, as the young band fought off butterflies and laid down tracks on hallowed ground.
The “Dry Fruit” cassingle (woo!) is out September 25 via Drag City.
The latest installment of the adventures of the first black superhero will coincide with the character’s debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Passenger, the production company responsible for “True Detective,” will pilot the new adaptation.
Robert Zemeckis’s dramatization of Philippe Petit’s literal high-wire act is out in IMAX first on September 30, and then on October 9 in regular theaters.
“We never intended for our name to be provocative or hurtful.”
“Divers” is out October 23 on Drag City.
Case zero will unravel in Chicago next week.
You missed this year’s Dutch flower parade again, didn’t you?
Yes, Brettin doesn’t outwardly take himself too seriously.
“Don’t come to Chinatown no more, dawg. You done lost your Chinatown pass.”
The Christmas nightmare film hits theaters December 4.
So maybe San Francisco really is doomed, but as Cold Beat have figured out, the walls can’t cave when you’re hovering somewhere above the Golden Gate.
Eleven self-released lo-fi albums in, Will Toledo has graduated from the bedroom to the studio.