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
Odonis Odonis, Odonis Odonis
On their sixth LP, the industrial duo tones down the electronic tendencies of their past decade of output as they revisit to the gloomy post-punk and atmospheric shoegaze of their origins.
Sword II, Electric Hour
The Atlanta trio’s strange, radical second album of emotionally charged psych-gaze sees them honing a sound that feels striking and approachable, easy to grasp but also subtly experimental.
Danny Brown, Stardust
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
Mike LeSuer
Colin Newman and Malka Spigel embrace the American minimalist tradition on the latest cut from their forthcoming Nanocluster Vol. 2.
The GothBoiClique co-founder’s fourth solo album is out now via Epitaph Records.
Featuring members of Arab on Radar, Some Girls, and The Chinese Stars, the outfit’s fourth album Wilting arrives June 7 on Artoffact Records.
Ryan Savitski, Ross Thompson, and Colman O’Brien share 10 tracks that helped shape their vision for their evolved sophomore LP, out this week via Run for Cover.
The darkwave solo project of former Nothing drummer Kyle Kimball returns tomorrow with the A Silver Blade in the Shadow EP.
The Jimmy Whispers–directed clip lands with the news that the Oakland post-punk trio’s new album of the same name will land August 23 via Carpark Records.
Ahead of the release of their own freak-punk opus Hex Dealer, the New Yorkers help define the genre with 15 tracks by artists breaking ground in the weirdo rock scene.
Time Is Now, the LA-based psych-folk songwriter’s first record in nearly a decade, arrives July 12.
The Australian surf-pop duo’s fourth album Rebuild Repeat is out June 14 via Farmer & the Owl/BMG.
With his new album P.S. Fuck You out today, the Alabama-raised trap artist shares 11 tracks he’s been inspired by over the years.
Coraline Kunda breaks down all the humor and heartbreak of the Chicago trio’s latest record.
The Minneapolis-based power-pop trio’s sophomore album Avoider is out next Friday via Forged Artifacts.
The Tashaki Miyaki vocalist’s Brion-produced debut solo EP Good at Love is out June 7.
The anti-imposter-syndrome anthem lands at the tail end of the nomadic songwriter’s US tour.
The Bay Area rockers led by Two Gallants vocalist Tyson Vogel will release their debut album of the same name on June 14.
The experimental sax and percussion duo shares another new track ahead of their debut album WeirdOs, slated for a June 21 release via Speedy Wunderground.
The Nashville-based folk experimentalist announces his new album Cascades, Cascading, Cascadingly will arrive September 6 via Missing Piece Records.
The free events will take place in the days leading up to the album’s May 17 release.
The songwriter delivers the highly conceptual set of songs ahead of his sophomore album Steven, out this week via Father/Daughter.
Arriving with an intimate music video, the track also comes paired with an expanded set of fall tour dates reaching the UK and Ireland.
