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

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.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Danielle Chelosky

The indie star sings of love and longing in Shelby Township, MI.

“Wonderful Hell” arrives ahead of the feminist punks’ new record, out this October.

The quartet’s debut album is out October 9 on Winspear.

The young singer/songwriter plays the vulnerable song on his front porch in LA.

The duo’s self-titled debut is out October 2 via Goner Records.

The indie-pop artist has a new album out September 25.

The New York rapper worked with Quelle Chris for his next album, out October 16.

The single will appear in “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” which lands on streaming September 18.

“Once Upon One Time” is out October 23 via Park the Van.

The guitar music freak shares some tracks that influenced his debut album.

The sprawling record is out today on Brassland and Arts & Crafts.

“Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy” will be available on Bandcamp for only 24 hours.

The metalheads-gone-shoegazers choose synth-pop for “Somewhere Nowhere.”

The dark synthwave project arrives November 20 via Felte.

Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper, photographed in SE Portland in April 2020. Photo by Jason Quigley.
The experimental country group have released a new single from their forthcoming album “Holy Smokes Future Jokes.”

It’ll be the Nigerian-American rapper’s second album of 2020.

The indie-rock/pop-punk gem is out today via Plastic Miracles.

The indie rock duo have a new LP out on Captured Tracks today.

The ambitious NY-based singer/songwriter talks us through her new album, out today on Grand Jury.

The artists come together to celebrate Blackness on “Better Than I Imagined.”