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

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.
Mike LeSuer

The songwriter’s fourteenth album will feature Pharrell Williams, Chris Martin, and Sky Ferreira.

SoCal songwriter Brian Collins sounds right at home on the lo-fi/folk indie label.

The Chicago songwriter shows off her sunroof in the new video for her summer-released single.

Along with an early listen, Monks gives insight into each individual track for the Dine Alone Records release.

Preceding their “Singles Too” comp, Marissa Paternoster and Jarrett Dougherty share some B-side favs.

The recording of a recent 29-track set at Bowery Ballroom comes with a 76-page book of photos by Hiro Tanaka.

George Clanton, The Paranoyds, Surfbort, and others, explained.

The proggy Boston experimentalists celebrate release day with an arty new visual.

The third and final pre-album single from “Big Blue” is full of grungy longing.

Along with the news, the eclectic label offers up an early stream of Robedoor’s new record, “Negative Legacy.”

The power pop songwriter lives every artist’s dream and ranks ten of his stunning “Born Hot” self-portraits for us.

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The two-song pairing is the latest meditation on late capitalism from the Have a Nice Life side-project.

The folksy songwriter shares the first video from his podcast-released new album “Are You Feelin’ It.”

The title track to the genreless rapper’s latest LP plays on repeat to accommodate its lengthy visual.

The Phil Collins classic gets a spooky makeover for Dacus’s newly announced “2019” EP.

The reinvigorated Boston dance-punks look ahead on their latest single from their forthcoming “What Would the Odd Do?” EP.

The pulsing single is the third cut from their forthcoming Dais Records debut, “Private Life.”

The first official single from the two-day old album comes to life with a Johnny Jewel–directed video.

While touring LP “Braindrops,” the Australian band shares their secrets to being a rare innovative rock band in 2019.

The Portland-based synthwave group gives us something a bit more substantial to chew on as we anticipate “Dear Tommy.”