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

Julien Baker & TORRES, Send a Prayer My Way
Baker and Mackenzie Scott’s debut pop-country collaboration is made up of a nuanced and emotionally kinetic set of hangdog story-songs that wear their nudie suits with pride.

Mamalarky, Hex Key
The psych-pop quartet are churning out some of the most clear-headed fuzz rock of their career, meeting inner turmoil with a funkified grace on their third album.

Beirut, A Study of Losses
Zach Condon’s 18-song epic commissioned by a Swedish circus and inspired by a German book about cultural loss marks his most exploratory album since his Balkan indie-folk days.
Dean Brandt

It’s the first video in the songwriter’s outdoor Sun Rooms Series.

Riverside County public health officials signed an order canceling both music festivals.

Killer Mike is the son of an Atlanta city police officer. Two of his cousins are police officers. He’s one…

Natalie Mering also promises a new Weyes Blood record in 2021.

The impossible-to-beat game arrives ahead of the anticipated “Van Weezer,” out May 15.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 by David Iskra
The video arrives with news of a delayed release date for Price’s “That’s How Rumors Get Started.”

Nine Inch Nails / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Trent Reznor surprised us this morning with two new and free-to-download “Ghosts” records.

The latest in her line of vibrant singles incorporates a wide variety of influences, from The Strokes to Fela Kuti.

The Brits experiment with thermal imagery in the clip for their recent single.

The rockers’ new album drops this Friday, but you can get an exclusive listen at 585-20-PEARL.

The Nirvana cover is the first of many from the musician’s Quarantine Covers series.

Kurt Vile
This Friday alone sees notable releases from Chika, Code Orange, Deap Lips, Lil Uzi Vert, Grouplove, and more.

The single comes from the Philly punks’ third record “Monuments,” out early next month.

The post-punk greats detail their second record this year, out on Record Store Day.

Artists and workers are struggling to rebound as the fest takes a year off amid coronavirus concerns.

The UK trio shares the first single from their newly announced third LP “Hot Slick,” out May 29.

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2019 by David Iskra
The March 9 tornado relief benefit will also feature Brandi Carlile, Ashley McBryde, Sheryl Crow, and Yola.

The band’s new album “Healer” drops next week.

With the festival just over a week away, SX still has a few tricks up their sleeves.

HAWA
The 19-year-old vocalist goes deep on all eight tracks of her seductive debut, out today.