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.




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

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.

Perfume Genius, Glory
Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.
Alison Story

Jack White and company get weird in Japan for the forthcoming “Help Us Stranger” full-length.

The clip is for the title track of Elsa Carvajal’s new full-length album.

Wonder-Twin powers activate in the form of a new club anthem.

Sharon Van Etten / photo by Adrian Santos
The two indie powerhouses will come together for a handful of U.S. concerts.

Just when you thought you couldn’t love her any more, she launches her very own line of pre-rolled joints.

The young singer-songwriter already has over a million streams on Spotify for the song and remix. Watch the new music video.

The eleven-song set was captured at the University of Alabama with band Stray Gators.

The pop queen will make her big-screen live action debut in the upcoming strippers-gone-wild film.

Billie Eilish / photo by Adrian Santos
Maggie Rogers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil Wayne, and Toto will also rock the Vegas fall music fest.

“The song is about finding space in the noise and cacophony of distractions in our lives today.”

It’s X-rated from the opening line. This remix is strictly for mature audiences.

Two Austin couples come together to make beautiful dream pop.

The “Online Boutique for the Misfits & Miss Legits” gets real for the California desert festival.

The Swedish pop sensation reveals a new slew of summer shows.

Lykke Li / Photo by Alix Spence
Courtney Love, Megan Thee Stallion, and Charli XCX will appear at Los Angeles Historic State Park in June.

“‘Ghost Writer’ is a song trying to come to terms with how being a parent influences you.”

Kansas City kids lead by example with thoughtful and profound pop.

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV
Rosalía, Teyana Taylor, and Holly Herndon are part of the eclectic lineup.

Van Etten performed “Comeback Kid” live on TV for the first time, and Patti Smith’s influence was all over it.

OG rave legends return with a new song, the fastest remix of all-time, and the most interesting puppy in the world.