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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Mike LeSuer

Before taking the stage at Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavík next weekend, the Of Monsters and Men vocalist shares a few of her favorite songs by musicians local to her home country.

The slasher-inspired clip arrives ahead of tomorrow’s release of the Charlotte punks’ new LP Legend Tripping.

Produced by Mo Troper, Brenden Ramirez’s new collection of songs arrives December 8 via Earth Libraries imprint Earth Worms.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter has announced that her second album Psychedelic Anxiety will arrive February 16 on Ramp Local.

The West Coast power-pop musicians share the most lavish highlights of their recent US tour.

The single’s proceeds will be donated to The Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

As the songwriter’s tour of her home country supporting her latest LP EMOTION SICKNESS winds down, she shares 12 songs by her local musical heroes.

Produced by Mathematics, the track features Method Man and Ghostface Killah along with R&B vocalist Nicole Bus.

The Austin-formed collective takes us track by track through their third LP, out today via Run for Cover.

With his second solo album arriving digitally this week, Harrison shares how everyone from Death Grips to Navajo-Ute flutist R. Carlos Nakai inspired him.

From Sartre to Martyrs, K.Z. Staska shares what helped shape the Providence screamo band’s debut for Prosthetic Records.

Leah Wellbaum and Will Gorin’s new EP I Promise is out in full tomorrow via Dangerbird Records.

The Cincinnati punks’ new album Half Eaten by Dogs drops October 27 via Trouble in Mind Records.

The second solo single from Lilith’s Hannah Liuzzo arrives ahead of her debut EP, Talk a Blue Streak.

“Whoops.”

Led by Kane Strang, the New Zealand trio’s debut record Spiel will land January 26 via New West Records.

The Amsterdam-based group’s namesake shares 10 tracks from 10 local artists putting the Netherlands on the indie-rock map.

The Chicago-based songwriter’s debut album Saint of Second Chances arrives this Friday via Pravda Records.

The Chicago-based songwriter’s latest release drops November 10—just three months after her debut EP.

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The stars and co-writers of the new A24 musical-comedy compile 11 of their favorite tunes about kinship.