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

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.

Pelican, Flickering Resonance
The tone of the Chicago post-metal band’s first album in six years feels triumphant, like ascending the peak of the mountain that adorns its cover.
Mike LeSuer

The Cincinnati-based art-rock quartet’s new Ribbon EP will arrive in full on April 12.

Ahead of his new album What’s for Breakfast?, the LA-based indie-pop figure answers a more pressing question for us: Where can I get a good country-fried steak near me?

The album-length collaboration between the Japanese modern-classical composer and the Australian ambient artist arrives May 31 via Temporary Residence Ltd.

The LA group recreates the opening sequence from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation in the video for the first single from the LP out April 19 via Loma Vista.

Former THICK drummer Shari Page reminds us not to fear power chords on the new garage-punk tune.

The digital edition featuring remixes from the likes of Dan the Automator and MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden arrives April 5, followed by a new vinyl pressing out May 17.

The Austin dream-pop collective’s third album Sugarcoat is out May 3 via Kanine Records.

It’s the first single from Jackson Katz’s newly announced Pure Gluttony LP, which arrives May 10 via Danger Collective.

Ahead of Mirror, Reflect’s May 10 release via Winspear, Amy Oelsner shares a playful duet with Glenn Myers as the project’s lead single.

Auxiliary Foxing member Austin McCutchen’s new project will release their debut EP Small Favor on April 19.

The ambient Americana duo’s Dan Auerbach–produced record Sonido Cósmico arrives June 14 via Easy Eye Sound.

From new wave of British heavy metal bands to Nile Rodgers, the Philly-based garage rockers play some of their own favorites that inspired their new record. Besides Thin Lizzy.

Dave DiAngelis’ latest collection of songs, A public place, lands April 12 via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.

Valerie Caputo’s new collection of digital-age techno lands May 17 via Music Website.

The Philly slowcore group’s second album titled (deep breath) The Iliad and The Odyssey and The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (exhale) arrives April 25 via Count Your Lucky Stars.

Bullhead, Austin Feinstein’s first album under the moniker as a solo artist, is out now via Danger Collective.

His new album Lurlene is out April 11.

The Philly shoegazers return with their first new single since releasing their self-titled EP and Born Losers Records debut last year.

Multimedia artist JJ Weihl’s debut album for RVNG arrives this week.

The visual compiles footage of the band on their month-long trek across the US in support of last October’s I Promise EP alongside The Front Bottoms and Pronoun.