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

Goon, Dream 3
Both brighter-eyed and harder-hearted, the LA quartet return with a third LP of full-bodied psych-shoegaze which settles deeply into Kenny Becker’s cataclysmic transitional life period.

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.
Mike LeSuer

Band leader Jess Shoman breaks down each track on their sophomore record, out now via Keeled Scales.

The Akron/Family offshoot’s third album Experiments in Plant Based Music Vol. 1 arrives today via Everloving Records.

The record officially drops tomorrow via San Fermin’s Better Company Records and The Orchard.

Journalist Lizzy Goodman discusses the new documentary adaptation of her 2017 oral history of the scene, and how the stories it follows are much more timeless than they may appear to be.

The remix arrives alongside a video for the original version of the single from Plato’s recent LP The Devil Has Texas.

The musician and comedian’s new single arrives via Anxiety Blanket Records.

Severance’s Britt Lower stars in the visual from the band’s new album Cool It Down.

The Austin neo-soul outfit pushes further into the realm of hip-hop on their new collaborative single.

The indie-pop duo’s sophomore LP All You Need Is Time arrives tomorrow.

From Young Thug to PinkPanthress to Quelle Chris, the Charlotte-based emcee shares 20 songs that influenced his second record.

“Freaks” arrives ahead of the Atlanta songwriter’s debut EP Monstar, dropping November 11 via KRO.

Photo by Joule Seventeen
Best Friend, the debut LP from the Maggie Rogers and SZA collaborator, arrives November 11.

The track arrives with news of the London-based post-punks’ debut album Dead Meat, which arrives January 27 via Trouble in Mind.

The songwriter’s sophomore LP This Is a Good Sign arrives November 4 via illuminati hotties’ Snack Shack Tracks label.

The Grand Rapids–based songwriter’s new record Rainbow Music arrives November 4 via Winspear.

The track will appear on the LA dream pop group’s forthcoming debut album Little Stories.

It’s the title track from Museum Mouth vocalist Karl Kuehn’s debut solo EP, arriving next Friday.

The track arrives ahead of a new double-single from Justin Sullivan, as well as a UK tour alongside Widowspeak next month.

The ballad of Michael Myers arrives ahead of the group’s EP of the same name, out October 28 via Suicide Squeeze.

The Leeds’ noise-rockers’ first release since 2020’s Fantastic Man arrives November 18 via Exploding in Sound.