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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
Mike LeSuer

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“Holidays Inside” arrives June 25.

The Canadian duo will release the record June 18 via We Are Time Records.

The single and its visual arrive ahead of the Brooklyn rockers’ “Site Out of Mind” LP.

Watch the video for the first single from Travis Egedy’s new album, out July 9.

Identifying, dissociating, and defining 30 more artists who’ve embraced the gerund.

The recording from an Asbury Park gig was included as a bonus track on Little Hag’s 2020 LP “Whatever Happened to Avery Jane?”

The Brooklyn rockers present their latest stoner-rock single ahead of their planned April 21 gig at The Sultan Room.

A spokesperson for the hardcore collective on his band’s goal of preventing the genre from becoming the psychobilly of heavy music.

Ahead of the LP’s May 21 release date, the single arrives with a photo essay courtesy of vocalist Gordon Phillips.

“The War Clock” is the first track from the ensemble’s latest jazz fusion experiment, with the full LP arriving May 28 via Castle Face.

The track arrives ahead of Alex Schaaf’s new album “Soft,” out April 23 on Barsuk Records.

Nicolle Maroulis shares a playlist of their favorite fellow NJ bands following the release of HLAG’s “Heart Racer” LP.

The single arrives ahead of the Bay Area trio’s “Crossing Over” EP, out April 23 on Exploding in Sound.

A video for the track also arrives ahead of the band’s third LP, out May 21 on Other People Records.

Sad13 drummer Zoë Brecher’s remastered solo debut arrives April 23 on Babe City Records.

“Gumline (Livia Soprano)” arrives ahead of “Long Armed Bill’s Summer Comp,” which will benefit gifted students in the Bay Area.

Jacob Bullard shares the origin story for each of the songs on the Grand Rapids group’s second album.

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

Shot on iPhone, the visual arrives on the heels of her second LP.

The Canadian punks also announce The Guaranteed Destruction Livestream Tour, kicking off April 15.