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

Rhys Langston, Pale Black Negative
The LA-based artist’s most comprehensive foray into genre abolition yet is a whirlwind of artistic exploration that sees the songwriter coloring well outside of hip-hop’s lines.

Subsonic Eye, Singapore Dreaming
The Singaporean indie rockers’ jangly fifth record proselytizes the beauty of the natural world, providing hope with deliriously catchy tunes that channel ’90s groups like Superchunk and GBV.

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.
Mike LeSuer

Al Menne shares nine recent favs from Big Thief, Lucy Dacus, Bill Callahan, and more.

Beck / Photo by Pooneh Ghana
The “Hyperspace” single comes to life with the help of Tessa Thompson, Evan Rachel Wood, and Alia Shawkat.

The Brooklyn duo ready their self-titled debut with yet another melancholy single.

The synthy first single “Rare Thing” establishes the Saddle Creek release as an experimental affair.

Falana reveals the opening track to “Darkest Light” before its October 25 release.

The Chicago ska ensemble do an anti-authoritarian take on Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” visual.

The slowcore duo recommend three favs from their label on the release day of their third LP, “Heavy Lifter.”

Cardi B, System of a Down, and Harry Nilsson soundtrack the power-pop group’s food fantasies.

The latest single from their new Tobacco-produced LP is another highlight in the PA duo’s hallucinogenic discography.

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.