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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Margaret Farrell

It’s the lead single from their new album “How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?,” out August 27.

It’s the third single the duo has shared from their album “Animal,” out July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis.

Love commented on the promo photo for Rodrigo’s forthcoming live concert film.

Ella Williams discusses her sophomore album “Planet (i)” and the beauty and terror of nature which inspired it.

“A Sympathy for Life” is out October 22 on Rough Trade Records.

It’s the Baltimore band’s first non-collaborative release since 2018’s “Time & Space.”

The Liverpool-based group back-up their Yeezy namedrop on “Grand National” with a playlist.

As a solo artist and as one half of Bay Area duo Blackalicious, Parker was an undeniable innovator in the rap underground.

The EP is out now via Zelig Records.

It’s the Brooklyn-based musician’s first single since signing to Snafu Records.

The rap duo’s guest-heavy mixtape “Ho99o9 Presents Territory : Turf Talk Vol. 1” is out today.

“Colourgrade” is out October 1 via Domino.

Watch the NY-based songwriter perform tracks from her debut album “Try Harder” and a rendition of Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill.”

Her debut album “Madame Gold” is out July 23.

The Toronto group is releasing their “Eventually” EP on July 30 via Hidden Pony/LootBag Records.

The duo shared two tracks off the full-length scheduled for August 13 via Dead Oceans.

Portrait of the artist CMAT in Dublin 2020
It’s the Irish country singer’s second single of 2021.

“The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows” is out November 12 via Transgressive.

The chaotic track features all the staples of a messy night out.

It’s the Montreal singer’s latest single since her 2020 EP “woman, here.”