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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Margaret Farrell

Along with a track-by-track breakdown, you can stream the Luxembourg-based musician’s EP before it comes out tomorrow.

The Israeli pop artist’s 2nd album is a messy, confrontational, entrancing explosion of socio-political thoughts.

Recorded between 1998 and 1999, “Tallahassee: Archive Series Volume no. 5” is out May 7 via Sub Pop.

It’s the first single from “Crooked Machine,” the reshaping of last year’s “Róisín Machine” by producer Crooked Man.

The London five-piece have made an accompanying music video for each track.

Batmanglij’s sophomore album of the same name is out June 4 via Matsor Projects.

The Philly rapper collaborated with kids and LEGO to create her latest music video.

“Daddy’s Home” is out May 14 on Loma Vista.

Re-released as a double-LP with 15 new tracks, Alejandro Rose-Garcia’s debut celebrates 10 years of existence.

The latest single from the Swedish singer follows last year’s “A Bite of Papaya.”

The Busta Rhymes-sampling single follows last year’s “2000AND4EVA.”

The trailblazing new wave group is nominated for Rock ’n’ Roll Hall of Fame induction this year.

Their new LP “Smash” will be out this July on Walkmen bassist Peter Bauer’s label Fortune Tellers.

The newest signing to Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records has an EP coming this spring.

by Cindy Barrymore
The Manchester, TN festival is scheduled for the weekend of September 2.

Their collaborative full-length “Utopian Ashes” is out July 2 on Third Man Records.

The set, which is out May 7, includes a bonus album called “Far Memory.”

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Their next album “No Gods No Masters” comes June 11.

The Bay Area artist’s debut is due later this year via Park the Van Records.

The three new covers appear on a deluxe version of “Saint Cloud.”