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

“Set My Heart on Fire Immediately” arrives May 15 via Matador, followed by a tour with Tame Impala.

The former Pill members share the playful third single from their wildly experimental debut.

Moses Sumney / photo by Adrian Santos
The neo-soul songwriter’s installation will remain at LA’s Bootleg Theater through March 4.

Members of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Killers team up with illustrator and Lucius guitarist Pete Lalish.

The new list of North American dates run through June and July.

The Auckland rockers announce their debut LP “Leaving Room” with a guitar-heavy single.

The “BALD!” video arrived last night, preceding next week’s European tour.

The title track from the Norwegian artist’s second LP is all about human connection.

Mariel Loveland takes a lonely trip to Coney Island in the clip for her project’s latest single.

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.