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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Mike LeSuer

Dave Benton’s fourth solo album Into the Burning Blue arrives September 27 via Lame-O Records.

The Toronto noise-rock group’s self-titled debut album lands October 1 via Cooked Raw.

Before returning with their first album in eight years, the PA post-hardcore band catches us up to date on what they’ve been listening to for inspiration.

The songwriter’s debut full-length The Academy will be released on September 20 via Winspear.

The single arrives with the news of the group’s debut LP I’M SORRY I DIDN’T BITE MY TONGUE, out October 25 via Share It Music.

The Chicago-via-Portland group shares how their latest EP of gothic post-punk was actually fueled by Jamaican dancehall greats.

It’s the weirdly heartwarming title track from the post-hardcore group’s doomy fifth album, which arrives next Friday via Exploding in Sound.

Vancouver-based songwriter Kylie Van Slyke reveals that the track will appear on her sophomore record Crash Test Plane, arriving November 15 via Royal Mountain.

Joe Stevens shares how Steve Reich and NYC’s Natural History Museum helped shape the sound of the band’s fourth album, out now via Topshelf Records.

The ever-adventurous neo-psych band shares how Chet Baker, Alice Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, and more helped shape their latest release, out this week via Bella Union.

Halifax-based songwriter Graham Ereaux introduces us to the cozy world of his forthcoming Heart Shaped Rock LP, arriving October 4 via Paper Bag Records.

The Atlanta metal group will be releasing a new EP on October 18 titled Dehiscence.

The final installment in the group’s The Heart, The Mind, The Soul EP trilogy also drops today with the release of the Robert Glasper–producer The Soul.

Jill Sullivan shares a visual for her recent anthem dedicated to all those idiots we have to share the road with.

On the heels of their own diss track “Writing Out a List of All the Names of God,” the Leeds band shares nine tracks that turn being a hater into an art form.

The London-based guitar-rock quartet share how everything from cooking to GTA: Vice City inspired their sophomore album, which arrives this week via City Slang.

The single teases a new release from the former Celebration vocalist.

The single arrives with the news that the Philadelphia-based group’s self-titled debut EP is arriving September 26 via Crafted Sounds.

K Nkanza shares how French house music, British dance-punk, and whatever you might classify Mew as helped shape their latest LP.

A video for the latest single from the LA collective’s new album Free Energy also includes the sax-heavy preceding track, “Opaline Bubbletear.”