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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Dillon Riley

The Raleigh group reemerge from a period of emotional instability and music industry strife with big hooks and swinging sonic motifs that often thrillingly end far from where they begin.

Distilling familiar, if slightly incongruent influences into an uncanny listen, the Pittsburgh collective’s sophomore release makes good on the promise of their early offerings.

On their Topshelf debut, the Philly shoegaze group put an impressive twist on a precious sound that places them in a rarefied class of their own.

There’s a strange feeling lurking within each song on the duo’s debut, as if some extra musical element is just beyond the horizon, a shoe that’s yet to drop.

The Boston trio’s third album succeeds in setting the slowcore group apart from their contemporaries through sheer force of personality.

These 10 tracks of countrified indie rock sound primed to soundtrack plenty of beer-battered bull sessions.

Expect the project’s debut EP out March 19 via Babe City and Topshelf Records.

The Swedish band unearths an old tune in lieu of their cancelled tour with The Radio Dept.