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
 
  Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
 
  Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
 
  Miguel, Caos
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
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  It’s the final single from the Philly group ahead of the release of their album Love the Stranger, out July 29 via Merge.
 
  The short film unfortunately may be as close as we’ll ever get to Robinson guesting on an RXK Nephew track.
 
  The track arrives as the latest installment of Suicide Squeeze’s Pinks and Purples singles series.
 
  The Cathedral Bells offshoot shares another synthwave single with an ’80s-inspired lyric video.
 
  The Philly hardcore group’s latest album Diaspora Problems is out now.
 
  The track arrives ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s debut album, out August 19 via Kill Rock Stars.
 
  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.

