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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Mike LeSuer

The “Babadook” writer/director is ready to terrify you all over again with her new film.

The jangly Glasgow band follow up their 2017 debut with a pair of tracks set for an August 30 release.

Celebrating (approximately) ten years of the songwriter’s first and most unpronounceable release.

The Tampa rapper/producer takes cues from past collaborators Daveed Diggs and JPEGMAFIA on the eleven experimental tracks.

From Red House Painters to Oneohtrix Point Never, the Philly rockers give some context for their experimental new record.

The filmmaker discusses father figures, the nuclear family, and the contradictions of the American utopia as they relate to his new feature.

The three new tracks complement the Brooklyn band’s dreamy debut released last year.

Zachary Cole Smith returns with his band’s third album, due out October 4 on Captured Tracks.

The jangly surf rockers unveil their upcoming tour plans along with the Kiran J. Callinan–featuring clip.

The indie label will celebrate two decades of releases with an October 12 show at Brooklyn’s Elsewhere.

Working with the same dichotomy that inspired her debut, the Montreal songwriter lists ten astrologically bent influences.

The Clean guitarist and jangle pop pioneer readies his eleventh studio album.

In the event of a newly announced Vivian Girls revival, it’s time to dissect the prophetic lyrics of the garage rock three-piece’s 2008 track.

Southern California’s preeminent hardcore punk emigrants are sharing their new album’s second single with a lo-fi visual.

Shannon Lay
The folky Sub Pop signee visits the “Simpsons” universe for her latest single.

The Baltimore electronic collective continue to rewrite the mom-rock canon with their gothy and gazey new EP for Deathbomb Arc.

The gothy Americana single is the latest from Wolfe’s sixth LP, “Birth of Violence.”

Taking the place of the wordless promos in LA, the vaporwave pioneer breaks the news of an impending 100% Electronica pop-up.

The NYC-based songwriter goes long on the songs and artists that inspired their debut for Conor Oberst’s Team Love Records.

The rockers cite Murakami, can-I-speak-to-your-manager people, and a newborn son as influences.