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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
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Daniel Monkman’s collaboration-heavy EP Big Pharma is out now via Paper Bag Records.

The Swedish songwriter’s album The Space Between is due out October 21.

The Chicago-based collaborators’ newest collection of songs arrives July 29.

The Alemsah Firat–directed visual arrives between the rapper’s recent Smoking Gun LP and his US tour.

The closing track to the Leeds post-punks’ The Overload LP gets embellished by a fan.

With six songs added to the original tracklist, the OST is also available to pre-order in physical formats.

The track arrives with the reveal of Elfman’s Bigger. Messier., an album of the composer’s songs reworked and remixed as collaborations.

The sprawling slacker jam arrives ahead of the Chicago group’s album 5-3-8, out August 26 on Innovative Leisure.

The prolific (to put it mildly) rockers’ second album of 2022, Tremblers and Goggles by Rank, arrives July 1.

The ex-Priests vocalist’s own debut collection of unhinged sounds, Barbarism, is out now.

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Madeline Link’s stripped-back EP WOAH arrives July 8 via Fire Talk.

With their dystopian sci-fi opus Excess out now, the trio shares 10 tracks that match its energy.

A Foul Form, the shapeshifting band’s latest foray into lo-fi punk, arrives August 12 via Castle Face.

From Code Orange to Mac Miller, vocalist Sam Treber names 10 fellow Steel City acts that inspire the band ahead of their new album Every Moment of Every Day.

Bauer’s new LP Flowers is set for release on September 23 via his own label Fortune Tellers Music.

The vaporwave trio’s latest collection of songs drops July 31 via—where else—100% Electronica.

All funds from the 37-track Bandcamp-only collection benefit The Trevor Project.

The track arrives ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s buzzing album Space Ghost, out July 8 via Lame-O.

The Winnipeg-based dream pop group’s Jay Som co-produced third album Someday Is Today arrives September 2 via Kanine Records.

Chris Adams walks us through a selection of tracks that helped shape his recent shapeshifting LP.