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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Dean Brandt

The former Shudder to Think vocalist serves up a rework of a track originally written with the late grunge icon in mind.

Recorded alone in a St. Louis studio, the songwriter’s debut LP introduces a unique new voice to the indie folk scene.

Kicking off a new season of the festival video series, the hardcore punks raze the Pickathon Slab in under two minutes.

Josh Benus introduces his new indie pop project with the assistance of Liz Cooper.

“Composure” is out now via Fearless Records.

Canterbury’s new contribution to the Atlantic Records roster overcomes the odds to serve up a pair of hard-hitting singles.

The So So Glos vocalist celebrates the good in spite of the overwhelming bad in the first video from his recent solo debut.

The young West Coast rockers embrace the season with a festive new single.

The Lost Boy ? leader introduces his forthcoming Paranoid Fiction with a ripper.

The rootsy pop duo bring their recent single to life in a very Nashville way.

The Canadian Americana songwriter announces his eighth album, Finally Free, and an extensive North American tour along with the foliage-filled video.

The first cut from the Athens, Georgia, songwriter’s debut solo record will take you to Appalachia and beyond.

The Bay Area shoegaze group offer up an early listen of their fifth studio album—their first in eight years.

The summer single gets a video treatment true to the song’s ironic tranquility.

Nashville’s sludgiest jam band carry over their genre-blending brilliance to video for their latest single, announce US and world tour dates.

The SF emcee enlists fellow underground all-stars on the second single from his forthcoming album.

The synth-pop duo reworks their 2008 single for its first official digital release.

Dickey wrote the track himself specifically for the Ethan Hawke–directed film about the life and times of Blaze Foley, which is getting a soundtrack release via Light in the Attic.

The latest track from Justin Sullivan’s debut heads back into the woods.

Dead Hearts Club remember those they’ve lost once upon a time in the deserted west.