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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Mike LeSuer

According to Jeff Tweedy, Kari Faux, James Blake, and more, “All My Heroes Are Cornballs” will let us down September 13.

The versatile rapper looks fondly upon the past in the clip for the “Sans Soleil” single.

The punk anthem precedes the project’s split with Graduating Life, out September 12 via Pure Noise/Epitaph.

The slowcore project of Montreal songwriter Michael Hansford shares its second single from the forthcoming “Touchstone” LP.

Alongside news of a sophomore album in tow, the Philly songwriter made us a list of ten tracks she considers to be flawless.

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The third installment in the band’s recent singles series is a moody plea for escape.

Sam Hall cites (Sandy) Alex G, Katie Dey, and Ricky Eat Acid as favs from the Grand Rapids–based label.

Berdan talks the cult Wes Craven film, cultural isolation, and his band’s latest collaboration with The Body.

There’s a new Peggy track called “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am a Thot,” and it hardly breaks the top ten.

HEALTH / photo by Andy Sawyer
With Show Me the Body rounding out the bill, you’re gonna be susceptible to conversion this December.

Caroline White lists three albums she’s proud to share a label with.

Tyler, the Creator / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
With one mystery headliner yet to be announced, of course “Frank Ocean” is trending on Twitter.

The Chicago rapper defies cliché by addressing five different forms of love on his new EP.

The experimental producer lists ten tracks that helped her keep things fresh while writing “DEATH DRIVE.”

The exploratory new record from the Austin duo is out October 18 via Double Double Whammy.

Their “love song to tinnitus” introduces the Boston grunge outfit’s latest release, “Let the Shit House Burn Down.”

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.