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

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.

Activity, A Thousand Years in Another Way
The third LP from the pigeonhole-proof Brooklyn collective proves just how far they can stretch the boundaries of indie rock with this radically diverse set of songs.

Ben Kweller, Cover the Mirrors
Dedicated to his late son, the former grunge-pop wunderkind crafts something both touching and infectious as it moves through the stages of grief like landmarks on an epic summer tour.
Mike LeSuer

The Brooklyn alt-dance group officially announce their new album Head Body Connector will be out February 23 via Northern Spy.

The Manchester outfit announce that their debut album Teething will arrive April 26 on Play It Again Sam Records.

The LA-based harpist and composer’s first full-length is out now via Fat Possum.

Arriving as their European tour kicks off, the single marks the Swedish garage-punks’ first release through PNKSLM Recordings.

The masked electronic musician also announces their debut album ABOMINATION, which arrives April 12 via Heavenly Recordings.

Produced by Gleemer’s Corey Coffman, the Minneapolis shoegazers’ new record will arrive February 16 via New Morality Zine.

The latest single from Jessi Zazu’s posthumous release with bandmate Linwood Regensburg could very well be the first track to feature both 12-string guitar and propane tank.

The electronic duo’s new album Mother Engine arrives February 9 via Dots Per Inch.

The buzzy South Londoners share their second single since signing to Domino last year.

Justin Pearson’s synthpunk outfit will release their second LP Fiction Prediction on February 9 via Three One G Records.

The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.

The Stockholm-based duo’s sophomore record will arrive March 8 via PNKSLM.

The mysterious audio/visual noise project’s self-titled release lands this Friday via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.

The Brooklyn punk trio will release a new EP titled Has Reservations early next year.

The UK-based songwriter’s forthcoming El Michels Affair–produced LP Zero Grace lands February 23 through Big Crown Records.

The conversation between the two titans of dad energy premiered this morning on the band’s YouTube page.

On the heels of their new Just a Dirtbag Christmas EP, the power-pop hitmakers share what they’ll be listening to this holiday season.

The track marks the NYC shoegaze group’s debut recording for Kanine Records.

The Brooklyn-based indie-rock collective’s fifth full-length, Arms, will arrive on February 16 via Better Company Records.

The Brooklyn group’s upcoming Spit EP arrives February 6 via Candlepin Records.