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.
Scott T. Sterling
A fixture on the LA rock scene who played with the Pixies in 2013 has died at age fifty-six.
The ex-Chairlift singer tries to keep her cool around someone she’s crazy about.
The Austin native shreds for his hometown on the iconic PBS show.
Fred Schneider walks us through forty years of the band, from their first “SNL” appearance to entertaining crowds of a million.
The new sound of 4AD is alt R&B from Rochester, NY.
The band reveals their first round of U.S. tour dates for 2020.
The LA-based brothers bring familiar feelings to new sights and sounds in their first-ever live-action music video.
The legendary venue is set to get rocked by Black Francis and company.
The young Minneapolis artist keeps the 4AD spirit alive in 2019.
The Radiohead singer’s “desert island discs” are all killer, no filler.
The comic/musician is taking a break, but the prognosis is good.
The track makes an appearance in the trailer for the new Blake Lively thriller, “The Rhythm Section.”
Andy Rourke of The Smiths and Happy Mondays’ Kav Sandhu premiere their band’s first official single.
The pop-punk icon has been called out by the U.S. Navy for sharing classified intel.
Where chillwave meets new wave at 3 a.m. on the college radio dial.
Thurz may or may not have just let the music news of the year slip out.
The rapper looks back on twenty years of the landmark LP.
The mysterious artist says the vandals simply beat him to it.
The Isle of Wight bros keep it pastoral for the fall season.
The instantly classic 1994 debut is remembered in the Amazon Music production.