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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Dean Brandt

Blood Orange / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Dev Hynes provides a visual component to his Toro y Moi–featuring “Angel’s Pulse” single.

The Norwegian synth-pop star lists her top cuffing and uncuffing tunes by Toro y Moi, Céline Dion, and more.

The single precedes the Azure Ray songwriter’s seventh solo album, out November 11.

Barnett gives the new-wavy “Keep On” a deadpan makeover.

Sparhawk grills Watt about the writing and recording process behind his forthcoming “Storm Damage.”

The iconic London post-punk group will release the LP January 24 via their own label, pinkflag.

Weyes Blood
Stream the new EP of alternate takes from Natalie Mering’s recent LP, “Titanic Rising.”

*to camera* It’s not really a pop song.

As promised, the Chicago rappers debut their new moniker with an icy single.

The addition of Weyes Blood, JPEGMAFIA, Japanese Breakfast, and more position the Amazon fest as a must-attend event.

Noname at Outside Lands / photo by Santos Social Club
Three of Chicago’s most promising rappers are up to something.

The Berklee multi-instrumentalist walks us through his three-track debut.

The latest from Wilco’s Nels Cline and Cibo Matto’s Yuka C. Honda is a dizzy blend of synths and guitars.

The single marks Dan Snaith’s first new music since 2014’s “Our Love” LP.

The latest release from the LA-based vocalist and producer on Arts & Crafts is now streaming everywhere.

Paramore drummer Zac Farro talks us through his third solo album of Afropop-infused psych.

The French one-woman-band introduces her fourth LP of dark folk with a speedy acoustic single.

Nearing the one-year anniversary of “Bottle It In,” the songwriter takes us behind the scenes of the album’s making.

“Civilisation I” arrives just in time for the London trio’s North American takeover.

The Turkish psych collective have garnered praise from Tame Impala, King Gizzard, and Edward Sharpe.