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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Kim March

The new single announces the LA-based songwriter’s signing to Nettwerk Music Group.

The LA-based pop project’s album If the World Is Ending will arrive this fall.

Preview the San Antonio–based hip-hop artist’s new track, which officially drops this Friday.

The Whigs vocalist’s latest collection of songs drops tomorrow via Normaltown/New West Records.

The East Sussex group’s ninth studio album of the same name arrives September 30.

Slated for release in 2023, the ex-HOLYCHILD songwriter takes a turn toward Italo disco.

The latest chapter of Fortress of Fun’s choose-your-own-adventure saga takes a medieval turn.

The latest single from Suicide Squeeze’s Pinks & Purples series arrives with the Mexican punks’ anti-patriarchy rager.

The songwriter and activist continues to tease her new album MATA, coming soon.

From Mexico with Love’s November 4 release date will coincide with a set of tour dates across North America alongside Bad Suns.

The singer’s new anthem about disappointing dates arrives ahead of her newly announced album The Loneliest Time.

Bassist Nikki Monninger takes lead vocals on the latest single from the group’s forthcoming album Physical Thrills.

The band also reveal that their new album You’re Not a Bad Person, It’s Just a Bad World will arrive August 19 via Empire.

Following a string of singles, the SLC-based outfit’s latest record arrives October 7 via Rude Records.

The Baltimore punks’ self-titled EP is slated to arrive August 26 via ZODHIAC Records.

The pair hit it off after Van Der Ark guested on Brett Newski’s Dirt From the Road podcast.

Flannery’s solo debut—featuring members of The Walkmen and The War on Drugs—arrives September 20.

The Midwestern songwriter’s latest album Carving Canyons arrives September 16 via Lionboy Records.

Titled “Candy Cane Forest 2,” the track follows last month’s reimagination of their song “Firesale.”

All Bandcamp proceeds from the single will benefit Noise For Now.