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

Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green
Arriving after her longest gap between solo records, Case’s eighth LP is heavy with atmospheric details and new perspective; it wonders yet never wanders.

Wednesday, Bleeds
The Asheville band’s latest set of contemporary Southern-gothic tales thrives on hyper-specific lyrical details as sweet sentimentality disarmingly gives way to visceral walls of sound.

Automatic, Is It Now?
On their polished, hopeful third album, the LA synthpop trio increases the empty sonic space as they move away from the cluttered, rough edges of lo-fi punk.
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.