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

The Carissa’s Wierd offshoot enlisted YouTuber Jacob the Carpetbagger for the quarantine-produced clip.

The Chicago songwriter compiles a two-tier track list for coffee hour.

The late songwriter’s self-titled second album gets a new reissue set for August 28.

The GothBoiClique rapper compiles songs that go equally well on late night drives or basking in sunlight.

The animated vocalist sings “Aries” alongside his creator.

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.