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
Armstrong revives the Tommy James classic for the COVID-19 era.
The singer is calling for “too cool for school” acts like The Smiths to follow suit.
The singer sent the track to BBC DJ Jo Whiley for radio play.
Listen to the LA morning show host’s scathing (and sad) on-air farewell.
With so many artists struggling to survive in these COVID-19 times, Bandcamp is doing its part to help.
Virtually visit Musée d’Orsay, the Van Gogh Museum, and more.
Cherry Glazerr, Vagabon, Wayne Coyne, and more are responding to these trying times.
If you’ve got plans to see a show this month, consider them officially changed.
Este Haim puts down the bass to belt out a cover of “I’m Not A Girl, Not Yet a Woman.”
COVID-19 concerns have pushed the desert fests to the month of October.
Listen to some jams, nosh on some rugelach—what’s not to love?
With SXSW 2020 going dark over coronavirus fears, the music world waits to see how another of America’s biggest festivals will fare.
The full original cast will reunite to launch the first Canadian Amazon original series.
Hate fruit and vegetables, but love caffeine, carbs, and fat? Grimes feels your pain.
A quick look at some of the artists who are just as fired up as the rest of us.
The punk icon is also launching extremely limited edition vinyl in NYC this week.
Major tours and events around the world are being shut down due to the encroaching pandemic.
She’ll probably whip you on the hiking trail in her new line of athleisure, too.
From “Protect Ya Neck” to relax your mind, the rapper/producer/actor/director continues to display range.
The LA native was part of the Paisley Underground plus founded Rain Parade and Opal.