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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

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.
Mike LeSuer

The rapper and producer come together for “Corner Store Scandal,” arriving ahead of their collaborative LP out May 7 on Mello Music Group.

Adam Schubert of Cafe Racer’s “bar-rock getting sober” record drops June 4 via Born Yesterday.

The Bay Area garage rockers’ latest album officially drops tomorrow via Empty Cellar Records.

Hear the closing track from the Toronto-based artist’s forthcoming debut album “Number One.”

Yosef, Ryan George, and Sara Taylor walk us through “A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression,” which is out now.

The track arrives ahead of the LA-based dark-pop producer’s latest LP “You and I Will Never Die.”

Ben Katzman’s latest project features contributions from Colleen Green and members of illuminati hotties and Potty Mouth.

The Montreal-based post-rock/psych trio will release the record May 21 via Mothland.

Homeboy Sandman, Quelle Chris, Joell Ortiz, Murs, and Mr. Lif also appear on “Bushido,” arriving April 2.

The very normal merch item will be limited to 36 units, and will not be available for Bandcamp Friday.

The experimental pop opus “Eau de Bonjourno” arrives this Friday via Telephone Explosion.

The Miami group shares another single from their debut EP “As Sweet as I Was,” which drops next Friday.

Stevie Knipe lists a dozen tracks that helped shape their latest LP, which drops this Friday on Epitaph.

The month’s most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

Adam Wiltzie provides a necessary field guide for the stage production soundtrack’s experimental orchestral drone.

With the film trilogy’s 20th anniversary creeping up, here’s something new to consider when rewatching it for the dozenth time: It is a movie about childbirth.

The Danish-Chilean composer cites Dean Blunt, Cocteau Twins, and Philip Glass as artists who have helped shape her aesthetic.

The Rhode Island band’s latest will be self-released tomorrow.

She broke the news in a new interview with “I May Destroy You” creator Michaela Coel for The Face.

The title track arrives ahead of Randall Taylor’s latest collection of ambient drone, due out April 2 on The Flenser.