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

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.
Mike LeSuer

Chloe Drallos also announces a North American tour in support of Earthly Delights, her new album out August 11 via Young Heavy Souls.

Their new EP Din is out now via Mark Ronson’s label Zelig Music.

The LA psych-punks’ new LP Data Doom lands September 1 via Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

The loose single follows last September’s Juvenilia EP.

The score for the film spotlighting the civil rights–era Black power group arrives August 18 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co and Khannibalism.

Christian Zucconi and Hannah Hooper take us track by track through their first album for Glassnote Records, out now.

With two EPs out today—one a reissue and one featuring original material—via their new label home of Matador Records, the Chicago rockers share some of their favorite bite-sized jams.

It’s the title track from Jancy Rae’s forthcoming sophomore LP, arriving October 13 via WWNBB.

The Toronto synthpop group dance themselves clean in the gauzy video for the first track from the sequel to last year’s Formentera.

The NYC-based contemporary folk songwriter’s sophomore album is out now via Fat Possum Records.

The New York–based songwriter’s new album French Bath is out now via Dots Per Inch.

Yung vocalist Mikkel Holm Silkjær’s second record Alien Health is out September 8 via PNKSLM.

Dylan Balliett’s fourth LP will be self-released on August 4.

Jordan Smith and Joe Vickers share a selection of songs which informed the ambient-electronic direction of the dream-pop band’s sophomore LP.

Kelli Mayo and Peyton Bighorse break down all 18 tracks on the punk step-siblings’ first record in five years.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter’s new album Forgiving Season is out tomorrow via Mtn Laurel Recording Co.

The video for the second teaser track from the Montreal pop ensemble’s forthcoming LP takes cues from ABBA.

A video for the reflective single arrives ahead of Samuels’ sophomore LP Bystander, out this Friday via Jealous Butcher.

Ryland Heagy breaks down each track on the East Coast punks’ experimental new release.

Spirit in the Room , the second LP from the post-punk group boasting members of Grooms and Russian Baths, is out August 4 on Western Vinyl.