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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Mike LeSuer

The new “Punisher” single arrives with a handful of tour dates—all in different rooms of her home.

Avery Springer walks us through the Chicago emo ensemble’s much-anticipated sophomore album.

“Ode” is the second single from the pop-punk duo’s latest LP, “A Portrait of an Ugly Man.”

The Brooklyn rockers will release the full LP July 24 via Exploding in Sound.

The English electro-punk duo contextualize the twenty-two songs on their latest release.

The 6131 release details singer Kelley Bader’s life after the death of his beloved friend Chris Avis.

The Mexico City post-rockers share the latest single from “Tiempos Raros,” out June 12.

Stream the stay-at-home sounds of Fiona Apple, Debussy, and Bobbie Gentry.

The New Yorkers share one last single before their Tooth & Nail debut’s release this Friday.

The “World You Want to See” single soundtracks footage of their U.S. tour with Have Mercy.

Woodson Black has also shared July 17 as the new release date for his debut, “Violence in a Quiet Mind.”

The Ontario-based songwriter shares an affectionate video for the “Born Again” opener.

Expect to see more Hi, How Are You? aliens at the skatepark when it reopens.

The LA rockers unleash a new single and video.

The Single Mothers vocalist also chats with Stefan Babcock about his recent tour with PUP.

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.