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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Mike LeSuer

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Brothers Alex and Austin Ward host what is quite likely the only podcast entirely devoted to the 1999 sci-fi comedy.

Unearthed from a bonus DVD accompanying their 2008 release, John Dwyer & co. serve up on-location live sets and compelling commentary.

Bay Area experimentalist Tia Cabral explains how Kubrick, Sun Ra, and “Frankenstein” inspired the unique aesthetic for her sophomore LP.

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.