Dylan Tupper Rupert

Lucinda Williams' Stories From a Rock n Roll Heart is out June 30. Danny Clinch hide caption At 70, Lucinda Williams is, true to her meticulous ethic, ready to fine-tune her legend. In her 2023 memoir, Don't Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You, she…

Fanny is the first all-female rock band signed to a major label. They started in LA. David Bowie once called them “one of the most important female bands in American rock.” Writer Dylan Rupert spent time with Fanny for season two of KCRW’s Lost…

“This is like a time machine!” Kathleen Hanna panted to the crowd of 5,000 at Bikini Kill’s first full show in two decades. Thursday night was the first of four blockbuster sold-out shows at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Palladium. This show was more than…

Omar Banos found fame streaming angsty pop songs from his bedroom. Now he’s a model for how musicians can thrive, unsigned. The California Sunday Magazine Photographs by Stefan Ruiz On the summer solstice, Cuco was shooting the video for its next…

An odyssey through the artist’s new album. Lorde’s age has always surprised people, as if having a successful, focused vision was inherently paradox to being a teenage artist. But her age was always her vantage point, as she negotiated meaning among…

The singer-songwriter’s fourth album is a rewarding ode to urban wandering Cities can feel so important if you have a sense of wonder. A visitor's awe can get mixed up with a conviction of some divine reason why this place exists, and a feeling that…

The Los Angeles duo discuss the forces and inspirations behind their second album, ‘Powerplant’ The energy between Harmony Tividad and Cleo Tucker of Girlpool has a motion of its own. The Los Angeles duo are sitting on an ottoman opposite me in the…

Searching for meaning at a Father John Misty show Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Coachella Sometime last week, I was struck by the urge to beat Father John Misty at his own game — namely, taking a light amount of psychedelics and feeling important…

Noname’s shine is a soft glow. When she’s in front of an adoring crowd, she’s lit by a comforting orb-aura of mutual appreciation rather than blinding, incandescent star-power. There's less flare, more flicker between her and her people. Having taken…

In election-countdown America last weekend, many of us were desperate for new reimaginings beyond what was available to us in the political moment. While our binary democratic system tried to shepherd the most malleable of us into thinking we only…

Watching the Saint Pablo tour in a time of trials for the star Taylor Hill/Getty Images for The Meadows Most of us who pay any attention to Kanye West are desensitized to watching him break down. He’s done it regularly and vulnerably in public,…

The newest festival on the block features rock grandees – think the Stones and Neil Young – alongside luxury camping. But is it more than a blast from the past? Over the next two weekends, more than 150,000 fans of classic rock, glamping, and…

Drugs, sex, and radical self-knowledge at the 'Anti' Tour The last time I took psychedelic mushrooms, I was walking the perimeter of a huge, forested park that shouldered up to the ocean. I was with a friend, meandering down a trail that led past a…

The intermittent high-pitched screams that burst across Seattle's KeyArena on Wednesday night -- host to Justin Bieber's first full concert in three years -- seemed to be the result of the pent-up… The intermittent high-pitched screams that burst…