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

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.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
Mike LeSuer

After teasing new music this week, the pair are sharing “4EVA,” their debut collaborative single under the moniker, which features Pharrell Williams.

The Seattle grunge rockers riff on the worm-brain conservatism of the post-COVID era on their first album in five years, out now via Sub Pop.

The Brooklyn-based trio’s second album Vital Return will arrive August 18 via Good Eye Records.

Alexandra Lily Cohen’s sophomore album Apparition will arrive June 9 via Grind Select.

Co-written by The National’s Matt Berninger, the single serves as the title track to the songwriter’s first album in eight years which arrives tomorrow via Arts & Crafts.

The track precedes the dark-folk songwriter’s new album No Masters in Paradise, arriving in May.

Jonny Pierce will be hitting the road this summer for an extensive North American tour.

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

The East Coast rapper follows up his Punk Goes Drill+** tape with another alt-rock interpolation.

The single arrives with the news that the Seattle group’s fourth album Levitator will arrive June 2 via Nine Mile Records.

Meredith Johnston’s new LP Hometown Hero is out tomorrow.

The track will appear on the LA-based hip-hop duo’s debut album age of scorpio.

It’s the title track from their forthcoming sophomore album, arriving April 21.

Arriving with a self-directed video, the track will appear on Tyler’s newly revealed Call Me If You Get Lost deluxe edition arriving this Friday.

William Tyler joins the Portland-based songwriter on his latest single from Western Sky, out May 12 via Arrowhawk Records.

Roz Raskin’s sophomore LP create myself arrives this Friday via Community Records.

It’s the title track from the Athens psych-rockers’ sophomore album, out May 5 via Fire Records.

The track arrives with the news that their latest album This and Other Gestures will arrive June 2.

An Evening at Macri Park, his debut LP for Kill Rock Stars, is out May 12.

Thom Yorke, The Smile
Alvvays, Weyes Blood, King Krule, and Kelela are among the other artists rounding out the lineup for the Chicago fest scheduled for the weekend of July 21.