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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Mike LeSuer

The Atlanta-based songwriter’s EP Checking for Daggers arrives October 21.

The Vancouver-based experimental rockers’ new album Circuitous arrives October 28 via Flemish Eye.

The ex-Chromatics vocalist’s five-song project is out now.

Following the release of their album Happy Now, the rock trio shares 26 tracks by their favorite artists from their local Brooklyn scene.

The piercing-noise title track from the Seattle hardcore group’s forthcoming album arrives with a video inspired by Stan Brakhage.

“Done and Dead” serves as the A-side to a new 7-inch arriving this Friday via Good Eye Records.

With their latest LP The Dance out now, Nico Schneit shares 12 tracks that inspired its upbeat energy.

Following the release of her debut EP, Anna Schwab reworks the 2019 bedroom-pop single.

The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The track arrives with a pensive music video ahead of the duo’s debut album Light Moving Time, out October 28 via Double Double Whammy.

With her debut EP Juvenilia arriving this week, the experimental rapper shares 17 tracks she aligns with.

The track arrives ahead of the LA-based group’s upcoming fall tour with The Joy Formidable.

With the album out now via Saddle Creek, John Rossiter shares the books that helped shape all eight tracks.

Recorded back in March, the live video arrives in the wake of the band’s sophomore LP Vestli.

Mourning Ritual, Seb Alvarez’s debut solo LP of experimental metal, is out October 14.

The experimental post-rock duo’s new album GOING drops October 7.

Mt. Surreal, the Swiss group’s first album in nearly a decade, arrives this Friday via Exploding in Sound.

The single arrives ahead of Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green’s debut album, expected out next year.

And in the Darkness, Hearts Glow will arrive November 18 via Sub Pop.

The doomy single arrives ahead of the Fog mastermind’s The Show Original Soundtrack LP, dropping October 7 via Lex Records.