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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Mike LeSuer

Boston-based songwriter Tiffany Sammy’s debut LP So Serious arrives in full this Friday via Totally Real Records and Dollhouse Lightning.

Nowhere to Go but Up, the band’s third LP of 2023, arrives November 24 via GBV Inc.

The track appeared on the Arizona-based songwriter’s recent Songs for No One Vol. 1 EP.

Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg’s follow-up to last year’s debut LP I Love to Lie is out now.

The duo promise a full EP and tour in the near future.

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.

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