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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
Kyle Carney

8th January 1980: Solemn Canadian folk pop singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen shares a joke and smokes a cigarette. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
The 1980 film “The Song of Leonard Cohen” offers a small, quiet glimpse of the songwriter’s life in Montreal.

The LA quartet’s third full-length feels like a dutiful turn toward the middle of the road.

MJ Guider “Precious Systems”
Echoing drones, lethargic beats, and mournful chants combine to make up the New Orleans trio’s debut.

Aphex Twin “Cheetah” cover
This is Aphex in retrograde, and it’s perhaps his very first concept album—albeit in EP form.

Aphex Twin promo shot
Stretched to 1000% of its original length, an Aphex Twin song suddenly exists on a different sonic plane while its component parts remain unchanged.

Mitski Puberty 2
Puberty: way more fun the second time around.

The Toronto electronic tinkersmiths’ first album is six years feels like it’s comprised of lost artifacts of sound, rough-hewn and forged in some otherworldly studio.

Tim Hecker “Love Streams”
The master of the drone Hecker tempestuous soundscapes on his first release for 4AD.