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

Mister Romantic, What’s Not to Love?
John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.

Matmos, Metallic Life Review
Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

Turnstile, Never Enough
The Baltimore hardcore collective distills and expands the essence of their breakout 2021 LP, leaning into the tension between explosiveness and a resulting uneasy stillness.
Margaret Farrell

The latest track from Brent Faiyaz’s first project with producers Dpat and Atu in over two years.

In collaboration with Gwendolyn Gussman, the single’s video symbolizes a chaotic odyssey toward freedom.

“Jubilee” is out June 4 via Dead Oceans, with a new set of tour dates to follow.

“May the Circle Remain Unbroken” will be a Record Store Day exclusive featuring Jeff Tweedy, Margo Price, Gary Clark Jr., Lucinda Williams, and more.

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.