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
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Miguel, Caos
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
Just Mustard, We Were Just Here
The Irish noise-rockers throw stones at their shoegaze glass castle on their third LP, a heavy-padded experiment in hypnosis that manages to channel a sense of euphoric mania.
Mike LeSuer
“Simplicity became the mantra for this album,” the Canadian band shares of their sixth album, out now via Full Time Hobby.
Pip Blom and Personal Trainer’s Willem Smit share how The Books, Madvillain, Kim and Kelley Deal, and more helped inspire their debut collaboration.
The New Jersey band’s third LP Wrench will arrive in full on October 24 via Will Yip’s Memory Music.
The eerie track featuring a children’s choir and a backing brass band will appear on the Irish experimental musician’s new LP Night CRIÚ, out October 31 via Sacred Bones.
As the long-dormant dance-punk outfit embarks on a fall tour, Luke Jenner shares how tracks by Built to Spill, The Zombies, Three 6 Mafia, and more have kept him feeling young.
Izzy Hagerup shares how Stereolab, Kim Gordon, Paul McCartney, and more helped inspire her more experimental turn on her second album.
The Queens-based songwriter’s debut single for Mtn Laurel Recording Co. features a backing band of Nick Hakim, Will Graefe, Nuria Graham, and Jeremy Gustin.
The garage-punks will release this recording and another that was shelved from their Nosebleed Weekend sessions as a 7-inch via Suicide Squeeze.
A week after dropping their last joint single, the Swedish emcees return with another new track to promote their respective North American tours.
The Isle of Wight collective share how everyone from The Chemical Brothers to Limp Bizkit helped them shape their energetic second album.
Doja Cat, Addison Rae, My Bloody Valentine, PinkPantheress, Skrillex, and Peggy Gou round out the list of top-billed artists for the June event in Barcelona.
Thick Rich and Delicious, the band’s 42nd album (and second of 2025), will arrive on Halloween.
Michelle K’s second shoegaze collection Sad Not Sad arrives October 24.
The industrial band formerly known as SCALPING share how Harmony Korine, Adam Curtis, Leonardo da Vinci, and more helped shape their second record.
Formed in 2022, the NYC alt-rock quartet will release their first record on October 31.
The synth-punk Joan of Arc offshoot’s fourth album will arrive on October 10 via Ernest Jenning Record Co.
The Icelandic electronic group’s first new project in 12 years is out now via Morr Music.
The LA-based artist shares the title track from their newly announced Strange World EP, arriving November 7 on drink sum wtr.
The Winnipeg dream-pop group readies their new LP Internal Drone Infinity, their first for Keeled Scales and Paper Bag Records.
“I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time” and “Children of the Baked Potato” are out now via Brainfeeder.
