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

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Mike LeSuer

TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe / photo by Natasha Aftandilians
Revisiting the very weird seeds that sprouted a handful of decade-defining artists.

Animator Rozalina Burkova brings the “Where Have All My Friends Gone?” single to life with a staticky visual.

The Brooklyn new wave trio offer another taste of their debut record “Introduction, Presence.”

Grimes / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The couple take a stab at cracking the top 50 most bizarre headlines of 2020.

ICYMI, the Cleveland rockers quietly uploaded 27 live recordings to their Bandcamp page last Friday.

The Oklahoman rockers cover the Texas songwriter for a movie called “Arkansas.”

The Michigan punks share one final video from the session, featuring “Melee”’s energetic closer.

White Denim
“I Don’t Understand Rock and Roll” and “Work” precede the remotely recorded album.

Alex Luciano details each track on the band’s sophomore record, out today via Frenchkiss.

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.