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

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.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Gabriel Aikins

The songwriter discusses fusing her love of running and music into a unique five-song journey with her latest release.

The pianist and songwriter shares how music helps her fully convey her feelings.

With a lifetime spent looking up at the stars, Josie Boivin is making music meant for outer space.

Calling it the project she’s always been hoping to make, Nandi Rose opens up about her fifth album.

The 18-year-old songwriter opens up about her visceral new album “Blood Bunny” and letting people into her world.

The Cleveland native is preparing for the release of his debut LP and learning more about himself along the way.

The 21-year-old turned two years of songwriting into a powerful LP about surviving heartbreak and reconciling the hero and the monster inside everyone.