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

The Chicago duo’s latest release officially drops this Friday via Take a Hike Records, followed by a release show at Schubas on May 4.

The track will appear on Santos’ newly announced solo LP New Wave in California, arriving July 14.

The jazzy R&B composer cites everyone from Karriem Riggins to Vince Guaraldi as inspiration for his latest collection of songs, out this week via Last Gang Records.

The Auckland folk-pop group’s fourth album Ceremony arrives this Friday via Ba Da Bing Records.

The self-directed visual from the East Coast rapper was inspired by an episode of The Sopranos.

News of the songwriter’s first album since 2017 arrives with a video for its lead single, “Summer Glass.”

Arriving June 9, Icon also features tracks with A Place to Bury Strangers, SUUNS, Patriarchy, and others.

The new track follows last year’s Mr. Baby EP.

As Nicolas Cage reteams with Nicholas Hoult in Renfield, we revisit the actors’ original pairing in a deeply human movie about weaving through all the fast food beverages life throws at you.

With his sophomore LP MotherFather out now, Yannick Ilunga shares 20 essential tracks from the musical and cultural movement he coined.

It’s the multimedia artist’s latest hard-hitting rap cut from their forthcoming Angels Everywhere EP, dropping this Friday.

Yvette Young breaks down each track on the mathy trio’s third full-length, out now on Triple Crown Records.

The East Coast rapper shares a trippy visual leading up to his Tony Seltzer–produced Pangea LP, arriving later this week via POW Recordings.

Chicago-based industrial-electronic musician Angel Marcloid shares a tracklist that spans genres in a way that parallels her new LP.

The lo-fi rock duo’s album PUFF is out on May 12 via We Are Busy Bodies.

David Schellenberg takes us deeper into the latest cut from the Winnipeg noise-punks’ forthcoming LP Wrong Dream.

Danny Lee Blackwell also fields questions about his newly announced fifth album Rajan, arriving July 14 via Suicide Squeeze and Fuzz Club.

Christine Fellows and The Weakerthans’ John K. Samson are featured on the track from Cylde Petersen’s forthcoming album The Wrack Line.

The Windhand vocalist’s second solo album drops April 21 via Relapse Records.

The LA-based outfit’s sophomore EP Dopamine Loop is out April 21 via Funeral Party Records.