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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Margaret Farrell

The Montreal-based producer and multi-instrumentalist shares her first track of the year before going on tour with Yaeji.

The cover arrives ahead of the new anthology The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake, out July 7 via Chrysalis Records.

Their latest LP Rat Saw God is out April 7 via Dead Oceans.

It’s the second single from the Arkansas rapper this year, following “Me First.”

Madeline Link’s sophomore album Crispy Crunchy Nothing is out March 31 via Fire Talk.

Nymph_o, the extended version of Shygirl’s debut album, arrives April 14.

Alex Perry Ross reunited with Bully to direct the video for the first single from Lucky for You.

The duo’s collaborative album of the same name is out Friday.

Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Karol G, ODESZA, and TOMORROW X TOGETHER will also headline the Chicago festival returning to Grant Park the weekend of August 3.

Susannah Cutler discusses the latest single from her sophomore album We Know the Sky that’s out March 24.

The Love Invention is out May 12 via Skint/BMG.

The single announces the Go-Go’s vocalist’s new EP Kismet that’s out May 12.

The group will debut new songs with a 41-piece orchestra across North America, Europe, and the UK later this year.

It’s the first glimpse of new music from twigs since last summer’s one-off single “Killer.”

This is the second single from the collaborators following last month’s “Pay It No Mind”—both of which will feature on the record that’s out March 31.

The duo’s latest album Everything Harmony is out May 5 via Captured Tracks.

Her new album Through and Through is out April 28 via Secretly.

It’s the second single and title track from Rose’s forthcoming album that’s out April 21 via New West.

Her Sub Pop debut GOOD LUCK is out March 24.

The group are going on tour with Death Cab for Cutie, Alex G, and Weezer this year.