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

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
Hayden Merrick

On their Cate Le Bon–produced second album, the Chicago trio reflects the fragmentation and uncertainty of geographical change by experimenting with a more minimalist, primitive palette.

Movement is central to the Chicago-based songwriter’s third LP, with a dynamic new indie-rock kick helping to propel its central thesis about love and loss.

After mastering the art of irreverent power-pop, Sarah Tudzin tones down the mischief on an uncharacteristically sincere document of honeymoon contentment and goofy domestic bliss.

The former Summer Cannibals band leader tempers her sound but reaches new levels of freedom as she steps into the role of main character on her first solo album.

Preoccupied with a sense of new beginnings, the West Coast psych band’s fifth album faces instability head-on with some of their most unpredictable tunes.

The London post-rock band’s debut collection of instrumental vignettes is music to get lost in—though you certainly won’t forget it’s playing.

Overflowing with euphoric rock anthems and personal epiphanies, the London outfit’s second album finds unfettered joy where there wasn’t any before.

Co-founded by fanclubwallet’s Hannah Judge and chemical club’s Michael Watson, the indie label discusses their community-minded approach to spotlighting music from the Canadian province they call home.

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In our latest digital cover story, the band—along with recent tourmate Maggie Rogers and album producer Shawn Everett—reflect on Blue Rev ahead of its one-year anniversary reissue, and how trusting the deep dives (and each other) makes it all worthwhile.

More cohesive than its title suggests, the second album from the Brooklyn trio is a snappy, bouncing clatter of post-punk vitality.

The Best Coast vocalist on ripping up the rulebook and rediscovering herself during the creation of her first solo album, Natural Disaster.

Impressionistic contemplation of the past and discomfort with the present is buried under sodden, water-logged synths and glitchy samples on the genre-defying group’s third proper album.

Alicia Bognanno details how the huge sound of her new LP comes from an intimate place.

From buzzy broncos feeble little horse to folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, there seems to be an increasing number of equine-named artists; we investigated this phenomenon.

Finn talks about The Price of Progress, the group’s new collection of distinctly modern fables, and continuing to grow as a band after 20 years.

Madeline Link finds hope in unlikely places on her warm, cranked-up second full-length.

The buzzy UK group’s debut EP showcases Jojo Orme’s dizzying vocal style, as well as the Rolodex of varied influences she mines to produce something wholly original.

On their second LP, the Midwesterners try on a host of different costumes, revealing multiple iterations of their malleable indie-rock sound.

The Philly-based five-piece encompasses the guitar-pop gamut, all the messy layers of human emotion, and a healthy dose of stars-and-stripes ephemera on their third LP.

In spite of characteristically good songwriting, the London-based post-Britpop group’s sophomore record wraps without any substantial revelations.