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

Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.

Tennis, Face Down in the Garden
The husband-and-wife duo calmly issue forth their always whimsical yet never overly precious musical blend of psych-tinged indie-pop from start to finish on their seventh and final LP.

Sarah Mary Chadwick, Take Me Out to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
The deep crevices of profound dependence live within the Melbourne-based songwriter’s every word and melody throughout her grayly comic and experimentally recorded ninth album.
Mike LeSuer

The Oakland group tackles themes of grief and recovery on their second album Joy Coming Down, arriving May 2 via Tiny Engines.

George Lewis’ stripped-back sixth album is out now via Dom Recs.

The Brooklyn-based post-punks share how everything from True Detective’s first season to medical research on reincarnation helped shape their fifth album.

Directed by the band’s own Danny Lee Blackwell, the clip lands ahead of a new 7-inch single arriving on April 11 via Suicide Squeeze.

The LA punks’ debut album Niis World comes out March 28 via Get Better Records.

The eerie track lands ahead of the New Orleans duo’s sophomore album Like Cartoon Vampires, out April 18 via Winspear.

The LA doomgaze band is touring the Southwest later this month, with a set of Pacific Northwest dates to follow.

Charlotte Weinman’s debut single lands ahead of her March 12 show at NYC’s Night Club 101 alongside Nautics and S.C.A.B.

The Michigan dream-pop ensemble’s fourth album Moonbow is out now via Graveface.

The folk-punks’ follow-up to their 2019 debut is out now via Wax Bodega.

The new-wave duo’s fourth album A Flame in the Dark lands March 28 via Born Losers.

The NYC-based band’s new collaboration with Told Slant’s Felix Walworth arrives with a set of tour dates alongside villagerrr.

Arriving April 4 via Suicide Squeeze, the psychedelic garage-rockers’ third album DOGGOD promises to open up the trio’s sound.

The French post-rock quartet’s tech-wary second LP The Age of Ephemerality arrives April 25 via Pelagic Records.

With the Seattle art-rock project’s fourth album out now via Sub Pop, Jessica Dobson and Peter Mansen share how Gang of Four, The Walkmen, Wilco, and more shaped their vision.

While her new album Erotica Veronica itself also fits the bill, the songwriter shares a collection of stroll-friendly tunes that helped inspire her self-produced third LP.

The three-song release from Deafheaven’s Shiv Mehra and Marbled Eye’s Chris Natividad officially drops tomorrow via Born Losers.

Situationally bleaker yet more instrumentally upbeat, the futuristic post-metal outfit’s fourth album echoes the cultural boom that’s accompanied us to the doomsday present.

Along with the Didirri-directed video for the single, Wise is announcing a set of North American tour dates kicking off March 1 in Toronto.

The LA-via-Portland psych-metal group shares that the track will appear on a new EP titled If You Only Knew, expected out April 18 via Suicide Squeeze.