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

Lambrini Girls, Who Let the Dogs Out
The UK duo hurls hand grenades in the direction of contemporary society’s myriad ills across their riotously fun yet deadly serious indie-punk debut.

Franz Ferdinand, The Human Fear
The Scottish rockers’ sixth album leans into variety with the help of a new lineup, though most of the LP’s highlights come in the form of singles exhibiting the band’s tried-and-true sound.

Ethel Cain, Perverts
More of an immersive art installation than an album, this 90-minute drone project is every bit as moving as its pop predecessor despite feeling deliberately difficult.
Maria Lewczyk

If we’re due for another wave of emo soon, we’re looking somewhere colder than Eastern Pennsylvania.

Along with a playlist curated by the band, Austin Getz goes deep on his newfound love of jazz.

The Title Fight vocalist juggles his internal and external worlds on “Looking Through the Shades,” his debut LP for ANTI-.

Frontman John Galm opens up about his struggles with mental illness and how he channeled it into his current project’s new album, “strength.”

It’s fun, it’s frivolous, it’s insightful.

With “Panorama” marking the Grand Rapids emigrants’ first album in five years, Dreyer tells us what set the project into motion.

Debut album “Crush on Me” explores maturity, queer identity, and how it all relates to the frosted pink, hardcore world we live in.

Saturn is the center of our universe, and gothbois love it.

“Better Oblivion Community Center” is a folk rock album that proves Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers to be perfect singing companions.