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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
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.