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

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.

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.
Mike LeSuer

The Chicago duo of Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller will release their debut album Chit Chat on August 1.

A very candid Gareth Liddiard shares how neurosis and delusion helped to define the Australian collective’s fourth LP, out now via Fire Records.

Former Whiskey Shivers member James Bookert also shares a live performance video of the track from Emigrant Lake in Oregon.

Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever, the Singaporean dream-pop trio’s first album for Kanine Records, will arrive August 1.

The New Jersey shoegaze bands’ respective tracks “Moving On” and “Someone You Adore” are out today.

The trumpeter and jazz-fusion composer breaks down his spiritual new project, out now via Dom Recs.

The LA trios return with their second new single from their forthcoming EP.

With the arrival of Black Noise, the Montreal-based artist’s third record in nine months, Barnes shares 11 boldly pioneering songs within the realm of rap.

Brigitte Naggar’s first new album in six years Anything Glass arrives June 13 via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records.

The piano-centric Places of Unknowing, the songwriter’s first solo record in nearly a decade, arrives this summer.

After releasing her debut solo album, the LA-based songwriter shares how Liz Phair, Local H, Ween, and more helped shape her vision.

The Brooklyn rockers returned earlier this year with new material teasing a future release.

Tom Fec shares how each song on the band’s first new album in eight years “took either years or a few days” to write.

The Australian group’s third LP is out today via ATO Records.

“I See a Darkness” marks the first new music released through Wasif’s Voidist Records, which will now be home to the artist’s back catalog.

The Y2K-invoking track serves as the indie-pop group’s second release via their new label home of Nettwerk Music Group.

A video for the track lands ahead of emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn’s second album, Bad Dogs, dropping July 11 via Joyful Noise.

Formerly one half of Talk Normal, Register’s debut double-single is out now.

Ron Mael shares which cultural figures and Parisian neighborhoods may have subtly shaded the duo’s 26th album.

Out today, his experimental debut solo EP N?C succinctly encapsulates his recent relocation from Chicago to New York City.