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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Mike LeSuer

The LA-via-Ottawa garage rock four-piece get spooky in the latest Gentle Leader preview.

The title track from Evian’s forthcoming LP is brought to life with the help of a punk rock sibling and a bright New York afternoon.

On its tenth birthday, let’s look past its genre and appreciate the unrivaled visual flair, debilitatingly honest coming-of-age narrative, and anti-corporate rage of “Speed Racer,” a kids movie.

Rural Italy’s impish garage rock trio opt for misfit royalty over biscuits and loyalty in their cosmic new video.

Young Fathers’ newest addition to their stellar catalog is no exception—but there’s still one key question that needs to be addressed.

As the era of conscious backpack rap fades, Brian Immanuel’s debut “Amen” hints at a new wave of overly-self-conscious, Internet-savvy fanny pack rap.

Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.

Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.

Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.

DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”

Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.

Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”

With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.

With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.

The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.

Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.

What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.

Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.

Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.