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.
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MUNA hair/makeup: Caitlin Wronski
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Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.
Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.
Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
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Robert Smith Promises to Deliver the Emotionally Devastating Cure Album of Our Dreams
For fans of The Cure waiting patiently for the new album, Roger O’Donnell says just hold onto your eyeliner.
July 23, 2020
photo by The1Point8
Watch Grouplove Frolic Through the Apocalypse in “Inside Out” Video
It’s the latest look from the band’s 2020 LP, “Healer”
July 21, 2020
Sylvan Esso Detail New Album “Free Love” with “Ferris Wheel” Visual
It’s the second single from the new album, which is due this fall.
July 21, 2020
Art & Culture
Limited Edition Nick Cave Toy Comes with “Red Right Hand”
The vinyl figure is being released in time for Comic-Con@Home 2020.
July 17, 2020
Supersuckers and Eddie Vedder Share Cover of Ramones’ “I Believe in Miracles”
The Pearl Jam frontman joined the band onstage in Seattle back in June 2014.
July 16, 2020
Arcade Fire, 2018 by Jennifer McCord
COVID-19 Put New Arcade Fire Album on Hold
Will Butler offers up a progress report on the follow-up to “Everything Now.”
July 14, 2020
Wu-Tang Clan Are Making Personal Video Messages on Cameo
The Staten Island rap legends are the latest to hop on the platform during the ongoing pandemic.
July 13, 2020
Fiona Apple, Kim Gordon, and More Support Mask Charity for Indigenous People
The movement benefits vulnerable communities and organizations being devastated by COVID-19.
July 09, 2020
Beck / Photo by Pooneh Ghana
Happy 50th Birthday, Beck! Here’s a New Khruangbin Remix of “No Distraction”
The eclectic songwriter celebrates a half-century with a stellar remix from the Houston trio.
July 08, 2020
David Johansen performing at the Carlyle. Photo credit: Sikelia Productions.
Film + TV
New York Dolls’ David Johansen Subject of New Martin Scorsese Doc
The movie is a collaboration with Showtime Documentary Films.
July 07, 2020
Vince Staples Stars On New Terrell Hines Track “Get Up”
Hines is finishing his debut mixtape, “Portal One: The Mixtape,” for release in August.
July 06, 2020
Ian Isiah Celebrates Black Life in New “Loose Truth” Visual
The colorful explosion of Black love in America 2020 makes an emotional and poignant statement over 4th of July weekend.
July 03, 2020
LISTEN: Mr Muthafuckin’ eXquire Digs Deep on New Track “Black Mirror”
Los Angeles beat master Madlib serves up a quiet storm for the Brooklyn rapper’s cool summer rhymes.
July 01, 2020
photo by The1Point8
Watch Grouplove Cover Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own”
The electric take on the Robyn classic is from a SiriusXM session earlier this year.
June 30, 2020
The Weeknd / photo by Andy Sawyer
The Weeknd Donates $1 Million to COVID-19 Relief
Abel Tesfaye has given big bucks to frontline hospital workers and MusiCares.
June 29, 2020
Film + TV
Kid Cudi and Kanye West Reveal Kids See Ghosts Animated Series Trailer
The Takashi Murakami–created show comes with a character best described as a sexy Transformer’s take on Groot.
June 26, 2020
Blood Orange, Vagabon, Kamasi Washington, and More Announced for “Black Power Live” Charity Stream
Activists Emma González and dream hampton are among the luminaries set to appear.
June 25, 2020
Snoop Dogg at Camp Flog Gnaw / photo by Rozette Rago
There’s a New Snoop Dogg & Willie Nelson Song Coming Soon
The brothers in weed are reconvening to help heal race relations in America.
June 23, 2020
Film + TV
Boots Riley Reveals New Series About a 13-Foot Tall Black Man in Oakland
“I’m a Virgo” will star Jharrel Jerome of “When They See Us” and “Moonlight.”
June 22, 2020
Björk Is Raising Money for Black Lives Matter U.K. on Bandcamp
Bandcamp’s NAACP fundraiser runs all day tomorrow in honor of Juneteenth.
June 18, 2020
