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

FKA twigs, Eusexua
The visionary artist’s third album embraces rave culture for all of its angels and demons, though the ego-defying journey may be riddled with moments of internal conflict that rupture its matrix.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Perfect Right Now: A Slumberland Collection 2008-2010
Ahead of their reunion tour, the cult indie-pop band resurrects lost classics from the bittersweet era of nostalgia that encircled their eponymous 2009 debut.

Paul Robeson, Voice of Freedom: His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV and Victor Recordings
This 14-CD collection remastering the legendary bass-baritone vocalist, stentorian actor, and civil rights advocate’s work is a crucial cultural tome of both spiritual and earthly sensuality.
Mike Hilleary

Tegan Quin discusses the sisters’ new album Crybaby, their new TV series High School, and surviving another set of overlapping press cycles.

With her debut EP “Faking My Own Death” out this Friday, the songwriter discusses making the leap from Texas to NYC, recording with Lord Huron, and becoming a cowboy.

In our latest digital cover story, Baker dives into the experiences that led to her new album “Little Oblivions.”

The songwriter dishes on Booker T’s anecdotes, the inspiration of Willie Nelson’s “Stardust,” and finally going solo.

The songwriter discusses what she describes as her treatise on having a personal life during the apocalypse.

The Alabama songwriter talks her new record and the challenges of being sober in the music biz.

In our first digital cover story, the duo discuss the new album, establishing distinct identities, and how music saved their relationship.

The songwriter on the quick evolution from her 2017 breakthrough to this month’s “Anak Ko.”

Frightened Rabbit at Lollapalooza 2016 / photo by James Richards IV
Along with Julien Baker + Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull, Grant remembers Scott Hutchison’s brutally honest artistry.

On her debut “Beware of the Dogs,” the Aussie singer-songwriter addresses the progress and pain of #MeToo.

The “Our Band Could Be Your Life” writer has a new book, “Rock Critic Law,” which lays out 101 of the tropes that lazy music writers can’t seem to help but fall back on over and over. But he isn’t mad—he’s just trying to make writers better.

With “≠,” the producer known as DSARDY aims to address technology’s dehumanizing effects by enlisting the help of the industry’s preeminent humans.

After the election, the Richmond artist threw out the introspective album she’d been working on and started over. What she made next was music for everyone.

When he’s not busy playing in one of the most beloved indie bands around, Chris Funk is looking for the stories that get to the core of what drives musicians.

Across all of “Turn Out the Lights,” Baker doesn’t pull a single punch.

As much as “Beast Epic”‘s music feels like a look back with a head full of experience, it doesn’t stop Sam Beam from keeping his lyrical gaze on what’s ahead of him.

Art at ground level.

photo courtesy of Mario Caldato Jr.
Behind the boards with Mario Caldato Jr.

photo by Marisa Bettencourt
The longtime “Rolling Stone” critic’s new book examines the Fab Four in a new light.

Since starting over three years ago, the song dissection podcast has turned into an institution—but it continues to surprise its creator with each episode.