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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Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.
Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
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ME REX, Pterodactyl
The London-based indie rockers’ latest EP is an anti-formalist return to form.
February 04, 2022
Farees Reaffirms His Pride in His Tuareg Heritage on “Mercury / Orgullosamente”
The latest single from “Galactic Africa” pushes back on neo-colonialism in energetic Afrobeat fashion.
January 26, 2022
Highnoon Wrestle with Growing Up and Growing Apart on New Track “Back to You”
Kennedy Freeman shares the first of two full-band singles already planned for 2022.
January 13, 2022
Jane Bruce Addresses the Men Who Think She Owes Them a Love Song on “Song About You”
The track arrives ahead of the “Jagged Little Pill” cast member’s debut album, “My Bed.”
January 12, 2022
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Beatrice Deer, “SHIFTING”
The Québec-based songwriter celebrates the richness of her culture and the healing she’s achieved through transmitting it on her latest release.
December 09, 2021
Anna Sun Struggle to Shrug Off Grief with “What a Shame”
The paradoxically upbeat single arrives ahead of their forthcoming self-titled EP.
December 08, 2021
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Lily Konigsberg, “Lily We Need to Talk Now”
The Palberta member’s solo debut channels the anguish and exhilarating possibility of a post-breakup period.
October 28, 2021
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Boy Scouts, “Wayfinder”
Taylor Vick’s comfort zone is the lilting, mid-tempo stuff her new album is founded on, opening up an expansive space around her nylon-string compositions.
September 29, 2021
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The Ophelias, “Crocus”
Chamber-pop ornamentation and live-band grit weave around spiritual lyricism on the Cincinnati band’s third album.
September 23, 2021
