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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Kim March

Eight-year-old Jolee Dunn’s self-penned inquisitive track gets fleshed out with a full band.

Capes
The song is the first release from the Launched Artists Digital Singles Series leading up to River Phoenix’s 50th birthday.

Maynard James Keenan revives another project after hinting at new music on social media.

The Amsterdam-born multi-instrumentalist shares a new song and video via the singles label WILDER.

Rivers Cuomo’s gift to all the mothers out there is an animated performance of “Blue Dream.”

The second of which, “Flight Tower,” is out June 26 via Domino.

With his own rock opera out later this week, the producer and songwriter shares some inspirations.

The latest from Dave Sardy’s mysterious music and art collective is now streaming.

Rod Thomas shares the uplifting single ahead of BLBL’s September-scheduled LP “Fun City.”

The clip for the latest “WIMPIII” single features choreography from Frances and the Lights.

The “I vs I” single gets a bizarre video full of sumo suits and nylon stocking masks.

Jealous of the Birds, Benjamin Scheuer, and MICHELLE also contribute to the Bob Dylan cover.

The brass-heavy hardcore group share a new arrangement of the singles.

With his new EP “Crush” out today, Jackson Phillips shares eleven tracks he’s been returning to lately.

The National Independent Venue Association was formed by over 800 venues looking for support.

The Sigur Rós singer shares the new single with a video co-directed by himself and Giovanni Ribisi.

Photo by Atiba Jefferson. Background photo by Glen E. Friedman.
The filmmaker and his “Beastie Boys Story” subjects will be doing an AMA tomorrow night on Reddit.

The track comes from the Bay Area songwriter’s self-titled debut, out earlier this year.

Nelson is launching a massive live stream this afternoon in support of the Last Prisoner Project.

The third single from “To Love Is to Live” arrives with the news of a new June 12 release date.