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
Still no word on how this affects the future of the group.
Full of sugary melodies, dust-stomped percussion, and at least a few flute solos, it’s a delightfully fun experiment—so long as lighting candles and having a party in a barn is the type of thing that sounds fun to you.
Sit down for a message from Dr. Ty Segall, Ph.D, doing tests on what appears to be a very sharp looking King Tuff. [You can now call the “Emotional Mugger” hotline as well.]
Plus, in honor of the reissue release of “69 Love Songs,” Stephin Merritt has added annotations on Genius.
The song is from “What Keeps You Up At Night,” the band’s upcoming split EP with Stardeath and White Dwarfs, set for release on Record Store Day, November 27.
The short film, which was executive produced by Lana Del Rey, premieres online November 11.
“See you never.” — Laura Palmer
The book will be released in June and has received advance praise from Salman Rushdie and Dave Eggers.
You can hear a home demo of “Was It You?” and check out the oral history of the 2005 landmark release now.
This is the second-ever feature directorial project from Kaufman, the writer of “Adaptation.,” “Being John Malkovich,” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
Send this to your dad.
I’d keep your address to yourself, guys.
He’s bonafide.
The Mantles, content with the bigger picture, are playing starfish out in Oakland, and have committed themselves to a slow but steady output of charismatic jangle rock spangled by a perennially underground status.
Self control is put to the test at the second annual sampling of LA’s most beloved and promising restaurants and eateries.
“All Odds End” is out now on Slumberland
The specially made track combines multiple unreleased takes from the upcoming twelfth installment in the exhaustive “Bootleg Series.”
Touring the more poetic ends of the country with our guide David Berman, in honor of the tenth anniversary of “Tanglewood Numbers.”
Composer Danny Elfman is set to reprise his singing role as Jack Skellington for the bash on October 31 in Los Angeles. [The Halloween show is now sold out, but a November 1 show has been added.]
The album is out next Friday digitally and on vinyl, which means that this was a very well kept secret.