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

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.
Mike LeSuer

photo by Brigid Gallagher
Sure, we’ll all be at the “Silent Alarm” set—but what are “Microwave” and “Ganser,” and should I be there for them too?

*Checks notes* *pauses* *deadpans camera* It’s called “Father of All Motherfuckers.”

The second cut from “All My Heroes Are Cornballs” is expectedly confrontational.

The Chicago trio isn’t shy about telling us which decade inspired their forthcoming album “My Star.”

Hear “Much After Feeling” and “Plant Sugar” from the Virginia band’s fourth album, out November 1 on Run for Cover.

The latest from the Brooklyn experimental electronic duo will drop October 25 on Exploding in Sound.

The melodic shoegaze trio detail the making of their new record.

With a street date of October 4, the Detroit rapper’s long-awaited fifth album features verses from Run the Jewels, Blood Orange, JPEGMAFIA, and more.

Part two of Fucked Up guitarist Ben Cook’s solo project drops October 25 via Run for Cover.

The goth-folk track is the latest single from “Birth of Violence,” out next Friday via Sargent House.

The “On Cinema at the Cinema” universe expands with a feature-length studio film coming in October.

Bethlehem Steel, May 2019
The video for the band’s latest single is full of choreographed dance moves and internal bleeding.

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

To accompany their debut LP “When the Tree Bears Fruit,” the Australian garage rockers serve up more songs about fruit.

Jawbreaker at Riot Fest / photo by Brigid Gallagher
Time slots for Blink-182, Bikini Kill, Wu-Tang Clan, and more announced (also, according to Goose Island Brewing, Riot Fest Sucks).

The second single from Robert Alfons’ second album in the “Destroyer” series takes the project in a somber direction.

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.