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

Shadow’s collab with the Future Islands frontman appeared on his 2019 album of the same name.

Ultralight beam / photo by James Richards IV
The three-day fest will return to Chicago’s Union Park July 17-19 with a well-curated lineup.

The second single from “The New Abnormal” lends itself to a nightmarish infomercial.

“House Arrest,” “Worn Copy,” and “The Doldrums” will be reissued by Mexican Summer on April 24.

Two of 2019’s most memorable releases will be played across North America beginning in September.

The Savages singer and “Peaky Blinders” director team up for an erotically charged clip.

Alaina Moore talks through all nine songs on the duo’s fifth album, out today.

“Made It Weird” is the first single from Jacknife’s newly announced “The Jacknife Lee” LP.

The NYC-set fest kicks off March 11—here are five great bands in attendance that aren’t A Place to Bury Strangers.

Grimes / photo by Daniel Cavazos
It’s the fourth song to be released from her forthcoming “Miss Anthropocene,” out next Friday.

The collaborative single arrives with visuals from Adult Swim animator Bona Bones.

Carrie Brownstein, Michael Moore, Roger Waters, and Lulu Wang will also be leading conferences.

The Strokes
The New York rockers broke the news during a rowdy Bernie Sanders rally last night.

The Midland rockers’ promo campaign for their sixth LP “JUICE” continues to intrigue.

Killer Mike and El-P are set to join the reunited hard rockers for a seven-month excursion.

The rebellious Russian punks’ latest video shoot was shut down by police due to its “extremism.”

The LA-based songwriter experiences love and loss in under five minutes in the clip for his latest single.

After breaking from touring just long enough to record their fifth album, the post-punk band give us their fav aux cord picks.

After a series of loose singles last year, the electropop duo is finally announcing the follow-up to 2016’s “Three.”

Trust in Shopping, dear listener.