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

Rich Brian, Where Is My Head?
The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.
Mike LeSuer

Linnea Siggelkow shares how her sophomore record documents her search for a sense of home.

Officially dropping tomorrow, it marks the debut release from the Chicago-based duo comprised of members of Yautja, Coliseum, and Immortal Bird.

Inspired by Bill Withers and The Beatles, the Austin-based songwriter’s new track is the latest taste of his Easy Eye Sound debut Flying Away.

The LA-based songwriter shares a loose single ahead of a handful of live dates in Texas and California, including Big Sur’s Hypnic Festival.

Josh Shaw’s new album Basketball Camp will arrive June 14 via The Record Machine.

Leaning into their lyrical strength of expressing life as we know it as a visceral horror story, the sludge-rockers’ fourth album is equally notable for its unexpected instrumental flourishes.

Landing ahead of their upcoming tour with Airiel and Blushing, the rework leans into the ambient direction of the Montreal dream-pop duo’s latest LP.

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.