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

Rhys Langston, Pale Black Negative
The LA-based artist’s most comprehensive foray into genre abolition yet is a whirlwind of artistic exploration that sees the songwriter coloring well outside of hip-hop’s lines.

Subsonic Eye, Singapore Dreaming
The Singaporean indie rockers’ jangly fifth record proselytizes the beauty of the natural world, providing hope with deliriously catchy tunes that channel ’90s groups like Superchunk and GBV.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.
Mike LeSuer

Melkbelly vocalist Miranda Winters shares 17 tracks that helped shape her debut solo album, which arrives this week via Exploding in Sound.

Tilted Planet, the debut project from Warehouse’s Genesis Edenfield and Ben Jackson, will be out May 17 via Danger Collective.

It’s the first track from the Alabama-based songwriter’s newly announced EP, as well as her first single released through new label Winspear.

The NYC-via-NC rapper breaks down each of these 10 tracks unified by a sense of emotional catharsis.

The Phoenix shoegazers will be playing shows out West with Interpol, DIIV, and SASAMI this summer.

The second album from the Seattle-based collective fronted by Natasha El-Sergany is officially out tomorrow via Doom Trip Records.

The DC post-punks’ new record is out today via Topshelf Records.

The two songwriters have recently been collaborating on songs for Spirit’s debut EP coin toss.

It’s the first single from the Portland-based songwriter’s newly announced Roseway EP, arriving June 14 via Arrowhawk Records.

The Dublin quartet fusing techno and industrial rock are gearing up for summer festival season.

Released in celebration of Titanic Rising’s fifth anniversary earlier this month, the revived visual originally began filming in 2018.

The Chicago punks announce their debut album Did You Get Better will arrive May 31 via Exploding in Sound.

The instrumental hip-hop icon will release a new album titled Visions Out of Limelight on June 14.

Spencer Peppet shares how Nick Drake and MUNA, as well as nostalgia and coming out, inspired each track.

The song appears on the Columbus-based alt-country group’s debut full-length of the same name, out now via Darling Records.

The Melbourne-based songwriter channels her inner Duderino on the latest cut from her forthcoming Summer of Love LP.

It’s the title track and lead single from Alyssa Midcalf’s EP of the same name, dropping June 6 via Born Losers.

The Minnesota’s indie-pop duo’s self-titled fourth album is out this Friday via Don Giovanni.

Featuring unconventional time signatures and recording methods, the eerie track lands ahead of the noise-rock duo’s second LP, Mirror.

Produced and co-written by FINNEAS, the record will be out May 17 via Darkroom/Interscope.