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

Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

Adrian Younge, Something About April III
The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

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.
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.