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

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.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.
Mike LeSuer

The Californian songwriter and producer shares the latest single from his upcoming collaborative album with the cumbia band, Wake the Dead.

The West Coast punks’ fourth album lands five years after 2019’s Almost Free.

Evan Shornstein pairs the release of his new LP Windswept with further listening “for cooling and circulating air.”

The German indie-pop group shares the latest in a string of singles released through their new label, Nettwerk Music Group.

Ahead of her debut solo EP Talk a Blue Streak, Hannah Liuzzo shares her guestlist for the first soirée she throws when she finally gets that house in the Hollywood Hills.

The Savannah-based rockers recently followed up their self-titled debut album with a Steve Albini–produced EP of the same title.

Before releasing their sophomore album this Friday, the London trio shares how Warpaint, Scott Walker, Destiny’s Child, and more helped shape their vision.

Six years after disbanding, the NYC noise-rockers reunite to discuss their newly reissued debut album Eighteen Hours of Static, community, and their unique legacy.

The new single featuring The Head and the Heart’s Jonathan Russell lands ahead of the band’s guest-heavy new album titled Winged Horse, which drops in January.

Former NFL player Antone Exum Jr. will release his new album hole on October 25, preceded by the sparse lead single.

Chicago-based songwriter Kristyn Chapman will release her introductory EP Morpho Season on November 15 via Hit the North Records.

The duo of Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney will return in October with Girl Cried Wolf, their first full-length in nearly a decade.

With the the London dance-punk group’s debut album out now, keyboardist Chris Hughes offer up some TMI commentary on what music gets their tails wagging, so to speak.

The Essex duo’s debut album What a Life arrives this Friday via the Fat Wreck imprint Bottles to the Ground.

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.