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

Pelican, Flickering Resonance
The tone of the Chicago post-metal band’s first album in six years feels triumphant, like ascending the peak of the mountain that adorns its cover.

Pet Symmetry, Big Symmetry
The Chicago trio’s fourth album stands tall as their most positive and sincere effort yet, glossing their emotionally resonant emo revivalism with a hard coat of power-pop paint.

Grails, Miracle Music
Regaining the fast momentum with which they released their early material, the instrumental post-rockers’ ninth LP is defined by a meditative feel coursing through the songs’ proverbial veins.
Mike LeSuer

The Toronto post-hardcore outfit tease their cinematic fourth album with a wildly diverse track list of influences.

Akron/Family guitarist Seth Olinsky breaks down his influences from Swans to Patti Smith on his latest single.

The noise pop group share the closing track to their forthcoming Hardly Art debut with an interactive video.

Matt Messore’s dream pop project gigs a New Jersey graveyard before hitting the West Coast.

Coppola, Scorsese, Spielberg, and De Palma all have new movies in production or slated for release later this year. Is it OK if we don’t really care?

Rick Maguire takes on the ghoulish policy advisor in the video for the Boston rockers’ latest single.

The heartland punk outfit teases their sixth album with a very enthusiastic video for lead single “(I Blame) Society.”

With “Us” hitting theaters last Friday, we’re ranking the ten most notable pioneering titles kept to two characters.

It seems weird that we’re able to arrange a top-fifteen list of bands with one-word names ending in -ing, but we might as well do it…right?

19 September 2018ñ “The Faint” is photographed at their band space on 26th and Farnam.
Todd Fink talks homework, “Egowerk,” and his band’s early emo work.

The Sunsets provide an experimental soundtrack to the doodled thoughts of a teenaged Sonny Smith.

The Brooklyn noise rock duo gives us a first taste of their yet-untitled full-length debut.

Before they embark on an intimate anniversary tour, we revisit their third album and remember why they were no Bon Iver—which isn’t a bad thing.

The popular (!) black metal group share a B-side too heavy for “OCHL.”

The extremely Oscar nominated drama and its snubbed peer lead a new generation of content from the streaming service, which seems to focus on millennial passivity.

Meet the space dominatrix inspired by a trip to AutoZone.

You don’t even need to ask—we’re all ready for this.

Florida man bravely steps into ring with Rage Against the Machine staple.

On the last stop of his anniversary tour, the Doomtree rapper offers some insight into the evolution of his uniquely punk take on rap.

The Brooklyn songwriter compiles ten healing songs that helped her make the leap from guitar to synthesizer for her latest record.