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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
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.
Mike LeSuer

“In the Dark” arrives ahead of the new collaborative record from producer Nyles Miszcyzk, which arrives July 15 on We Are Time.

With their latest record Love Gibberish composed on the farm where the band originated, the Chicago rockers accrue 14 songs to soundtrack their next trip to the countryside.

The Usher-inspired single is out now via Grind Select.

The Louisiana-reared rapper and guitarist shares a playlist of 10 tracks he would’ve liked to include on his new EP Riverhouse.

The disco-infused single is the first taste of the rapper’s new LP Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, which arrives this Friday.

Grand Kid, the debut EP from Bartees Strange’s guitarist, arrives May 27.

Nic Offer details the ideas behind each track on the dance experimentalists’ ninth album, out now via Warp.

The hardcore mainstays’ latest LP is out today via UNFD.

The Bon Iver drummer’s latest solo release is out now via Jagjaguwar.

The Teenage Halloween keyboardist’s first solo release will arrive June 3 on Lauren Records.

The single arrives ahead of the Flaming Lips percussionists’ debut album Joy City, out May 2 on Graveface.

The heavily psychedelic alt-rap project’s debut album Casual Abductions is out now via POW Recordings.

The trio featuring members of Ovlov and Palehound will release the album on June 17 via Exploding in Sound.

The latest track from the Seattle-based group’s label debut New to You arrives with a video.

The grungy Bloomington group’s sophomore album arrives this Friday via Darling Recordings.

The bad-trip visual arrives in the wake of the garage rockers’ recent album Esoteric Hex.

The Chicago-based rapper and producer break down each track on their new album, out now via Closed Sessions.

The single lands ahead of the group’s new Marina Abramović–featuring album Emerald Sea, out June 17 on Joyful Noise.

The 16-and-a-half-minute epic arrives ahead of A Murmur, Boundless To The East, out June 10 via Mothland.

A slo-mo video for the track arrives ahead of the Australian songwriter’s new album ALTAR.