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

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.

Clipse, Let God Sort Em Out
Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.
Mike LeSuer

The retrospective collection kicks off with three reissued Haunted Graffiti LPs, all out October 25 on Mexican Summer.

The ambient new single from “Face Stabber” is paired with an eerie video.

The U.K. rapper stepped into the Like a Version booth to cover the 2005 Gorillaz single.

The Aussie jangle pop group describe their new album in not entirely un-Burroughs-like terms.

Jade Lilitri offers up ten tracks that informed the sounds of his band’s latest LP.

The single arrives ten days after their native U.K. elected a new PM. Weird!

Modern Baseball’s Jake Ewald gives us the play-by-play for his Americana-conscious solo project’s third album.

Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.

The Philly trio serenade dates in the video for the second single from “If you’re not afraid, I’m not afraid.”

Justin Vernon and crew talk the intimate nature of new album “i,i” in WeTransfer-produced film.

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.