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

The experimental offshoot of Local Natives turn their first album single into a guided meditation.

Baldi performs the “Black Hole Understands” singles outside Philly’s Please Touch Museum.

The Vancouver-based songwriter shares a playlist of inspirations for “Below the Salt” along with the Tennis-produced single.

Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack share some tracks that inspired their EP collaboration with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

In case you were wondering how will.i.am stacks up to Venetian Snares.

The National / photo by Molly Adams
The album, surprise-released today, features Dessner on eleven of its tracks.

With her new LP “mydata” out today, Dey lists off ten tracks that soothe her soul.

The songwriter’s Bad Vacation tour sees her play on St. Simon Island, Georgia.

The single arrives ahead of the D.C. band’s LP “Crystal,” out October 16.

The Philly-based rocker comes off a year’s break with a colorful new batch of songs, out October 9.

The plunderphonics group share “Wherever You Go” and “Reflecting Light” ahead of their third LP, “We Will Always Love You.”

“PAC-MAN” recalls the hip-hop production of “Demon Days.”

The GothBoiClique producer shares a playlist of non-guilty guilty pleasures.

The clip establishes that the long-running experimental group’s fans are (almost) as weird as the band is.

It’s the third single from Something’s hypnagogic new LP “Cannibal House Rules.”

Jason Balla shares thirteen tracks that served as inspiration on the trio’s latest LP, “Flower of Devotion.”

The Darcy Baylis–produced project’s first single “Pull It Forward” is out today.

Justice Tripp shares some words on the visual, as well as on the shapeshifting nature of his band.

The “Safe to Disconnect” single arrives with an animated video.

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