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
Various artists, All Things Go: 10 Years
Benefitting the Ally Coalition, this collection features original material from the fest’s diversified wealth of artists—though it’s oddly devoid of any actual in-concert recordings.
Hüsker Dü, 1985: The Miracle Year
Packaging a set from their Minnesota hometown with reams of added live tracks from that same championship season, this collection sees the trio’s past and present melt into one new reality of stinging melodicism.
Odonis Odonis, Odonis Odonis
On their sixth LP, the industrial duo tones down the electronic tendencies of their past decade of output as they revisit to the gloomy post-punk and atmospheric shoegaze of their origins.
Mike LeSuer
The Chicago-based musicians met up with Semones and her band for the first time to perform the track they’re featured on from the duo’s new album Horizon.
Australian producer Teneil Throssell shares a few songs by queer artists in the electronic/dance/DJ space she’s had on repeat over the past month.
Inspired by Jonathan Ames’ novel, the track appears on the songwriter’s upcoming collab-heavy LP Before the Future.
The multifaceted musician shares how his latest chapter was inspired by the patient sounds of Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Feist, and more.
Arriving with a camcorder-shot visual, the track lands ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s new LP We Were Bodies Underwater.
The Philly shoegazers’ new LP of the same name will arrive on July 25 via Born Losers Records.
Russell Marsden shares which songs inspired the writing on his band’s first three albums, all of which are getting re-released together this week in a brand new box set.
The new track introduces the trio’s Lemon Twigs–produced sophomore album Playin’ Dumb, out September 5.
Austin-based duo Philip Lupton and Truett Heintzelman will release their new album Heat of July on September 19 via ATO Records.
The post-punk quartet also announces that their sophomore album of the same name will arrive on August 29 via Sacred Bones.
The Chicago duo of Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist Waller will release their debut album Chit Chat on August 1.
A very candid Gareth Liddiard shares how neurosis and delusion helped to define the Australian collective’s fourth LP, out now via Fire Records.
Former Whiskey Shivers member James Bookert also shares a live performance video of the track from Emigrant Lake in Oregon.
Beauty Fades, Pain Lasts Forever, the Singaporean dream-pop trio’s first album for Kanine Records, will arrive August 1.
The New Jersey shoegaze bands’ respective tracks “Moving On” and “Someone You Adore” are out today.
The trumpeter and jazz-fusion composer breaks down his spiritual new project, out now via Dom Recs.
The LA trios return with their second new single from their forthcoming EP.
With the arrival of Black Noise, the Montreal-based artist’s third record in nine months, Barnes shares 11 boldly pioneering songs within the realm of rap.
Brigitte Naggar’s first new album in six years Anything Glass arrives June 13 via Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records.
The piano-centric Places of Unknowing, the songwriter’s first solo record in nearly a decade, arrives this summer.
