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

From the Seattle trio’s February record “Sincerely.”

Journey through the past, darkly.

photo by John Gutierrez
Another “Olden Goldie” cut gets a clip.

photo by Elise Mesner
From the Captured Tracks release “New Work.”

photo by Nicole and Jax Anderson
The Detroit electro quartet’s debut is out September 22.

From October’s “Cult Psychotica.”

The LA-via-Portland avant-popsters announce their return.

photo by Bread Casey
From the group’s forthcoming “Crew Licks.”

The New York musician builds a wall of sound in the Catskills.

All the googaws and whatsits you need to heighten your festing experience.

photo by Andrew Brodhed for TuneIn
Growing up on the road isn’t exactly easy.

Courtesy of Spacebomb Records.

photo by Travis Button
Plus, tune in next weekend to catch the festival live from Happy Valley, OR.

From the Boston garage trio’s forthcoming EP “Play Loud Die, Vol. II.”

California and Germany ain’t the only places making new-age music.

photo by Ali Nogueiras
Seek succor.

photo by Stefanie Vinsel
The Mexican-American songwriter offers a timely lament.

photo by Eli Moore
Pastel tones out of Olympia.

photo by Kimberly Young Sun
The NY-based singer lets his hair out.

Country rock and roll will never die.