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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Mike LeSuer

The Canadian indie rockers’ ninth studio album, Beauty’s Pride, will drop June 6 on Yep Roc.

The Grand Rapids indie rockers officially announce June 13 as the release date for their sophomore LP The Curse of Caring.

Featuring members of Empath and Perfect Pussy, the quintet’s inaugural release drops May 30 via Get Better Records.

In a Q&A, songwriter Natalie Lew discusses her upcoming debut Diving for a Prize, touring with Death Cab for Cutie and American Football, and entering abandoned houses.

The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.

Nigeria-born songwriter Uwade Akhere breaks down each track on her first album, out today via Ehiose Records/Thirty Tigers.

The San Diego–based rockers’ debut album Hang a Star will drop June 27 via à La Carte Records.

UK indie-folk duo Will Taylor and Nick Hill also announce that their new album Between You and Me is slated to arrive August 29 via Nettwerk.

The Cleveland trio share how the Book of Revelation, true crime, the loss of a childhood friend, and more helped shape their latest collection of pop-punk.

Mina Walker and Kelley Dugan are gearing up to release their third indie-pop LP, The Rubber Teeth Talk, via S-Curve Records.

With this pivot to hyper-pop club-rap, the NYC-based artist shares how fashion, TV, and the elderly (i.e. anyone older than him) have shaped his work.

The Australian punks share a gluttonous video for the latest track to arrive from their third LP, Chrome Dipped.

The track marks the artist’s first recording since releasing music as Suno Deko.

With Tunde Adebimpe releasing his long-anticipated debut album, and his band touring in support of the 20-year anniversary of their own, we look into some of the lesser-known work from the NYC art-rockers.

Carolyn Fahrner’s self-released Somehow I Go in Circles All the Time EP will drop on May 16.

Takiaya Reed walks us through her new set of instrumental drone-metal tracks aiming to combat colonialist and genocidal ideology.

The track comes from the band’s new EP of the same name, which drops today via Graveface Records.

Garrett Burke invites listeners to Gloorp it up next week when his sophomore album sees a release via Jolt Music.

WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM, the LA-based artist’s debut for Stones Throw Records, is out May 30.

The songwriter and member of Sharon Van Etten’s Attachment Theory band will release her new solo album Autostatic! on May 23 via Switch Hit Records.