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

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.
Mike LeSuer

Twin sisters Romy and Sari Lightman will release their debut EP Sister Smile on December 6, featuring contributions from members of Hand Habit, Cola, and TOPS.

The Canadian songwriter’s seventh album, Basia’s Palace, is set to arrive on February 21 via Secret City Records.

The Japanese indietronica composer shares how Scritti Politti, Robert Plant, and various YMO-related projects have inspired him over the past four decades.

Swedish songwriter Thea Gustafsson’s debut album Only Music Makes Me Cry Now is out this Friday via 4AD.

The track lands ahead of the Australian group’s Stu Mackenzie–aided debut LP Dead Slow, which is out November 22 via p(doom).

Arriving December 2, the limited-edition Skin Yard Select compiles singles and rare recordings from the Seattle grunge pioneers.

The Arkansas-based songwriter shares how PinkPantheress, Grimes, Tinashe, and more helped shape the futuristic sounds of her debut album.

The PA post-hardcore band’s debut album Songs of Yesteryear arrives December 6 via Burial Whisper Records.

The pulsing, raunchy single marks Erin Hoagg’s first new music this year.

Alle rechten voorbehouden
A video for the cut arrives ahead of the Rotterdam-based gothic post-punks’ fourth album, which is out February 7 on Fire Records.

Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter share how their 14 years together under the moniker led up to this fifth LP, which is out now via Neon Gold Records.

The 90-minute project is set for release on January 8.

The Nashville hardcore-punk group’s second full-length is out now via Exploding in Sound.

The Japanese soft-rocker’s sophomore album Hotel New Yuma is set to drop on November 13 with a physical edition planned for December 18.

The LA-based songwriter shares a video for her latest track ahead of a pair of shows in London and Seattle next weekend.

The LA gothic-punks released the single earlier this month via Dune Altar.

The author of In Defense of Ska and his co-host on the podcast of the same name share a few of their favorite deep cuts among the punk and reggae subgenre that does not suck.

The Orlando-based emcee’s second EP this year is out now via Innovative Leisure.

The single is the first taste of the songwriter’s bluegrass-focused Internal Trembling EP, arriving November 22 via Kill Rock Stars Nashville.

A video for the lead single arrives ahead of the February 14 release of It’s Summer, I Love You, and I’m Surrounded by Snow via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.