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.
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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
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MJ Lenderman, Manning Fireworks
The Wednesday guitarist’s third solo record is a staggering refinement of no-frills songwriting that swaps the bells-and-whistles novelties of its predecessor with something more muted.
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David Gilmour, Luck and Strange
Five albums into his solo career, the Pink Floyd guitarist broaches notions of mortality with a fresh sound more angled than we’re used to hearing from his endlessly floating solo catalog.
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The Flaming Lips, The Soft Bulletin [25th Anniversary Zoetrope Edition]
This new two-disc reissue focuses less on bonus tracks and more on visual layout, as Wayne Coyne and designer Drew Tetz expand the trippy imagery of the iconic 1999 psych-rock opus.
Kyle Lemmon
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This new collection of B-sides from the Modesto group’s 2003 LP reexamines the prophetic promise of the crumbling computer age that the original album showcased so well.
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Recorded last summer at the annual event in Rhode Island, the Canadian-American songwriting icon’s first live set in two decades showcases her infectious performance personality.
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The Norwegian producer’s sixth album finds him jettisoning his slow-orbit jams of the past for propulsive beats and a lighter production mix.
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With the help of a 41-piece orchestra, this demure-yet-dazzling eighth LP is more intimate in scope when compared to the Icelandic band’s yawning post-rock discography.
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The Atlanta emcee leans into gospel and soul influences on his first LP since co-founding the more electronic-infused Run the Jewels a decade ago.
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This Yoshimi-era EP of fan-favorite demos is a warm piece of rock mythos finally made available to collectors as a cotton-candy pink curio.
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Birthed from dreams and the Biblical book of Psalms, the nocturnal characteristics of Simon’s new 33-minute acoustic tone poem are another fork in the path for the songwriter.
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Tim Rutili’s eighth album under the moniker spans a wide thematic landscape like a good short story collection, digging into the same experimental-folk loam he’s sifted through since the mid-’90s.
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The reissue features crisp remastered audio and an intriguing bonus EP to complement this moonless fairy tale of chiming alien transmissions and chamber-folk malice.
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The steadfast indie rock group’s production toolbox is fully refined on their ninth effort, providing more surprises in the melodic trap doors between tender and somber.
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The Canadian songwriter continues to play a series of wild cards on her sixth album, which mostly lives up to its name.
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The Canadian group’s ninth album builds off the adventurous power-pop sound floating around its predecessor while zooming in on themes of isolation and emotional upheaval.
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The songwriter supergroup’s full-length debut screams out its manic heartaches and unrolls stories with a quiet resonance—and just plain rips as an indie-rock record.
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These 12 tracks all point back to a pop artist not afraid to take some wild swings on her second album for her given name.
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Katherine Paul finds a new sense of space within Swinomish traditional pow-wow music on her fourth LP as she explores themes of homecomings and reawakenings of mind and soul.
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On his sixth album, the Saskatchewan-born songwriter continues to stub out his standby concepts of interpersonal trauma like used cigarettes.
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The Toronto hardcore-punk ensemble’s sixth album is the sound of restraining a powerful creative behemoth that wants to rip through the walls at any minute.
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The songwriter’s fourth album is quite a desert trek, visiting longtime landmarks of country, rock, honky-tonk melodrama, and ’70s psychedelics along the way.
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Victoria Bergsman’s incomparable alto range is the central draw for this wintery five-song collection of Colin Blunstone covers pulling from The Zombies frontman’s first two solo albums.
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This limited-release singles collection housed in a wooden packing crate showcases a celebrated musician who didn’t rest on his laurels after The Beatles came to a formalized end.