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

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.
Mike LeSuer

Honus Honus spills some words on the seventeen-track LP, out today via Sub Pop.

Before dropping her new LP tomorrow, she praises releases from Speedy Ortiz, Animal Collective, and others.

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

The New Jersey punks’ first NSR release arrives as a limited 7-inch.

The songwriter discusses his sprawling debut and his relationship with Sacred Bones.

Luke Temple’s single weaves a narrative through Auto-Tune and programmed instrumentation.

Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Deftones are among the groups that influenced BM’s latest record.

The visual for El-P and Killer Mike’s new anthem is an anti-capitalist utopia.

“Bees are not good,” Stefan Babcock screams as we celebrate the first PUP single of 2020.

Former Tigers Jaw members Adam McIlwee, Dennis Mishko, and Pat Brier go cow punk.

The LA grunge band’s latest single was produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin.

The rainy homemade visual accompanies their second single from “PSA.”

The West Coast punks offer up a blistering quarantine-minded single.

The SLC dream pop crew share the sugary third single from “Gathering Swans.”

The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” comedian reveals just how much she’s thought about caffeine this past year.

It’s the second single Conor Oberst and his band have shared since 2011.

Guitarist Ryan Hahn shares a few tracks the band leaned on while penning their “Violet Street” single.

The LA collective’s latest single with Colleen Green is the third sample from “Pickles & Pies.”

Maria Jacobson joins the Chicago band on their hazy 4/20 single.

The Montreal psych band share a colorful visual for their latest single.