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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
Mike LeSuer

The ill-fated event never took off due to the game’s servers crashing.

The Chicago group’s four members detail the writing and recording process for their second LP.

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The songwriter talks “BRAT,” quarantine, and the tracks that are getting him through it.

Kevin Parker and Mike Skinner tease a new track, likely to appear on a new Streets mixtape.

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

It’s the second single from Sean Sprecher’s forthcoming “Old Blues.”

The alternate version of Kevin Parker’s new LP sounds like you’re hearing it from outside the venue.

Alex Stoitsiadis shares a handful of tracks that influenced his band’s hectic punk sounds.

Jordana Nye gives some context for all thirteen tracks on her debut for Grand Jury.

The songwriter traverses Portland in the clip for the “Dishonorable Harvest” opener.

A collection of songs by the Windy City’s finest, including Melkbelly, Mykele Deville, Dehd, and The Hecks.

Run the Jewels / photo by Adam Maresca
It’s the second single from El-P and Killer Mike this week.

The doomy West Coast coldwavers share the third single from “Shadow.”

Fugazi, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Bikini Kill are among the names listed.

The clip is a “masterclass in how to not spend £20,000 on making a music video.”

Hinds / photo by Kirby Gladstein
HAIM, Jarvis Cocker, Hinds, Willie Nelson, and more reschedule their album releases for more certain time.

The Scottish punks share their new single with a satirical (and timely) video.

Will Toledo debuts “Martin” with a video of him washing dishes.

The ironically titled single arrives early in lieu of the duo’s cancelled tour.

New songs from Blanck Mass, Jenny Hval, SPELLLING, and more are available now, with 100 percent of proceeds going to the artists today.