



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
The Los Angeles Issue
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.

Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.

Die Spitz, Something to Consume
With their Will Yip–produced debut, the Austin punk quartet has something to say about postmodern society in 11 metal-fusion tracks ripe with political turmoil and skatepark angst.

Shame, Cutthroat
The UK rockers don’t mince words on their fourth studio album, pairing their infectious proto-punk grooves with nakedly hedonistic lyrics.
The eleventh running of the Pitchfork Music Festival went down this weekend under glorious skies in Chicago's Union Park and featured perhaps the strongest lineup in the festival's history. Strong—if at-times bleak—headlining sets from Beach House, Sufjan Stevens, and FKA twigs were bolstered by a robust undercard that ranged from jazz (Sun Ra's Arkestra, Kamasi Washington) to R&B (Miguel, Jeremih, BJ the Chicago Kid) to however you classify Jenny Hval’s circus madness.
We were chilling in the shade and keeping our phones charged off solar power thanks to our pals at Clif Bar & Company, who were giving out 7" singles made from recycled plates—and offering up adult coloring books for the stressed and young at heart alike—at their Re-Sound Lounge. But our photographer James Richards IV was hard at work canvassing the Red, Green, and Blue stages and capturing what he saw. Check out the fest through his eyes below.

A couple wait for a fresh-cut record at the Clif Re-Sound Lounge / photo by James Richards IV

Thundercat at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Thundercat at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Thundercat at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Neon Indian at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Neon Indian at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Miguel at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Miguel at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Miguel at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jeremih at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jeremih at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jeremih at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

One lucky unicorn at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Ultralight beam / photo by James Richards IV

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

The crowd at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Rickey and Kamasi Washington / photo by James Richards IV

Marshall Allen of Sun Ra’s Arkestra at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jeremy Earl of Woods at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Julien Ehrlich of Whitney at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Max Kakacek of Whitney at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Whitney crack a smile backstage at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Chicago’s own Twin Peaks at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Clay Frankel of Twin Peaks at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Cadien Lake James of Twin Peaks at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Sun Ra’s Arkestra at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Charles Davis of Sun Ra’s Arkestra at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Tara Middleton of Sun Ra’s Arkestra at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV


Gruff Rhys of Super Furry Animals at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jason Lee Scott at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Sufjan Stevens at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Sufjan Stevens at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Sufjan Stevens at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Sufjan Stevens at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Gemma Thompson and Jehnny Beth of Savages at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jehnny Beth of Savages at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

photo by James Richards IV

Moses Sumney at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

NAO at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Neon Indian’s Alan Palomo at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Union Park / photo by James Richards IV

Australia’s own Royal Headache backstage at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jehnny Beth of Savages at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Martin Courtney at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

The Clif Re-Sound Lounge at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Kevin Morby at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Patrice Quinn at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Kamasi Washington at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Miles Mosley at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Rickey Washington at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Holly Herndon at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Nick Millhiser of Holy Ghost! at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Nick Millhiser of Holy Ghost! at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Jenny Hval and friends at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Julia Holter at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Brandon “Professor Boogie” Coleman at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Holly Herndon at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Girl Band’s Dara Kiely at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Girl Band’s Dara Kiely at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler of Digable Planets at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Craig “Doodlebug” Irving of Digable Planets at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieria of Digable Planets at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Amy Millan of Broken Social Scene (and Stars) at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Carly Rae Jepson at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Carly Rae Jepson at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Brian Wilson at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Dev Hynes of Blood Orange at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Dev Hynes of Blood Orange at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Dev Hynes of Blood Orange at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

BJ the Chicago Kid at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Victoria Legrand of Beach House at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Alex Scally of Beach House at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Beach House at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Beach House at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Victoria Legrand of Beach House at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

BJ the Chicago Kid at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Anderson .Paak at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Anderson .Paak at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Anderson .Paak at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

Al Jardine of The Beach Boys at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV

An old pal pops up at at the Clif Re-Sound Lounge / photo by James Richards IV

Filling in the blank at the Clif Re-Sound Lounge / photo by James Richards IV