District artists Joe and Luke McGarry—spot their postcards in our newest issue—have just signed with New York’s forward-thinking RCRD LBL (also home of Cold War Kids) for their band Pop Noir. Exciting press release and MP3 below:

Paul G. Maziar and Matt Maust’s new book makes you make sense of it

The ideas and personal revelations about the mundane in What It Is: What It Is won’t make sense if you don’t want them to.
That’s because writer Paul G. Maziar’s and graphic artist/photographer/Cold War Kids bassist Matt Maust’s collaboration feels like an existential [...]

Matt Wignall and wells in foreign lands

PHOTO COLLAGE by MATT WIGNALL
Matt Wignall has reasons to find his name all across Long Beach: as Matt Wignall, photographer; Matt Wignall, musician; Matt Wignall, sometime writer and producer and engineer and as much a source of perspective and wisdom to Cold War Kids—whose first recordings came from his [...]

We Barbarians

PHOTO by MATT WIGNALL
When We Barbarians started making music together way back in . . . what, July? . . . the Long Beach trio was best known for its time in The Colour, an anthemy band that ended its run in . . . what, June? Starting a new band is a tough [...]

Bearbricks: DDR Projects falls in line with the rest of Black Friday and offers 10% off on all toys. Thru Sun.
DDR PROJECTS 532 E Broadway, Long Beach 90802. 562.590.9030; ddrprojects.com.
It Should Happen to You: A sweet deal on Judy Holiday’s ’50s comic romance. 7pm. $1.
LONG BEACH SCHOOL FOR ADULTS 3701 E Willow St, Long Beach [...]

We Barbarians: Broadlind regulars and Cold War Kids buddies take to Spaceland in support of the Softlighties Monday residency. 8:30pm. Free.
SPACELAND 1717 Silverlake Blvd, Los Angeles 90027. 323.661.4380; clubspaceland.com.
Shopping for Hope: Sunny Nash’s photographic study of storefront churches across America. Thru Nov. 17.
CENTER FOR CONSCIOUS LIVING 3215 E Third St, Long Beach 90814.

Cold War Kids take their passports out of their pillowcases

PHOTO by MATT WIGNALL
It was the last show of the last full tour before the Cold War Kids’ first record came out and it would be the last of its kind: Cold War van parked in an alley behind a Clovis strip mall and Cold War [...]