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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Dean Brandt

photo by Travis Button
Eric Biddines controls his flow over Paul White’s weirdo assemblage.

photo by Daniel Dorsa
Justin Wilcox and Jeffrey Silverstein’s guitars gently weep.

photo by Olivia Vale
The Texan is back with more woozy cosmic country from the edges.

It’s the North American premiere of the “Everything is Forgotten” clip.

New-wave thrash from Chicago.

photo by Lindsey Ross
From the forthcoming “Cold Spring.”

From last year’s “Pennied Days.”

photo by Kristin Cofer
“Miss Taken” is out June 30 via Castle Face.

photo by Nicole Mago
A virtuosic performance from Mary Beth Richardson.

The young Portland punk has more styles than Harry.

“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” is not a chip flavor. “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Falafel” almost is.

photo by Maxwell Lukas Gay
The Chicago rapper’s “The Boy Who Spoke to the Wind” is out June 23 via Mello Music Group.

photo by Divine Enfant
The Suicide instrumentalist releases his ninth solo LP, “Demolition 9,” on Friday.

“Rough Roads” is out now via Voodoo Doughnut Recordings.

Amateurs, GTFO.

photo by Tamas Bernath
Dark times call for dark music.

A long, long way from New York, Greta Kline and David Maine joined us for an acoustic version of the “Next Thing” track.

“Officer, I promise, it’s only milk.”

Brooklyn’s best new punks show their softer side.

From March’s “Bad Posture.”