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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The Los Angeles Issue
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Odonis Odonis, Odonis Odonis
On their sixth LP, the industrial duo tones down the electronic tendencies of their past decade of output as they revisit to the gloomy post-punk and atmospheric shoegaze of their origins.
Sword II, Electric Hour
The Atlanta trio’s strange, radical second album of emotionally charged psych-gaze sees them honing a sound that feels striking and approachable, easy to grasp but also subtly experimental.
Danny Brown, Stardust
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
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Saved by Old Times: Deerhunter’s “Microcastle,” Ten Years Later
In 2008, Atlanta’s preeminent indie rock band made a record to become more than just that—but only tentatively so.
August 17, 2018
Here Was Your Future: Growing Up with The Thermals
The Portland trio called it quits this week, but for many, they leave behind a fiery legacy that can’t be put out.
April 11, 2018
Staff Picks
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard’s Five 2017 Albums, Ranked
The proggy psych septet destroyed any traditional conception of a release cycle last year, but each of their five LPs are worth talking about on their own.
February 26, 2018
In Conversation
In Conversation: A. Savage of Parquet Courts on Introspection and Words that Rhyme with Eyes
With an art exhibit and a debut solo album to offer, the ever-busy lyricist and visual artist opens up on his creative process with expected verbosity and frankness.
October 10, 2017
Reviews
The War on Drugs “A Deeper Understanding”
To love The War on Drugs, to gain a deeper understanding like the title of their latest album suggests, is to constantly return to the echoing canyons of dreamy classic rock they’ve spent over a decade now forming.
September 15, 2017
