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

Recorded in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band’s studio in New Orleans, the LP is set to drop February 5.

With the rappers’ “FlySiifu’s” dropping this week, they made a playlist of their favorite joint tracks.

The track will lead off the Minneapolis band’s EP of the same name, out January 22 on Slumberland Records.

Pay what you want for the eight tracks Peggy’s put out since dropping “All My Heroes Are Cornballs.”

David Cohn and Greg Saunier’s improvisational album balances anxiety and quirk in a way only these two artists could.

The project formed by Huggy Bear’s Chris Rowley and Male Bonding’s John Arthur Webb has a record out via What’s Your Rupture? today.

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Andre and Vonne share 12 tracks that would make their set if they were given the aux at their favorite Central Florida dive right now.

The U.K. post-punks experiment with spoken word and famous whistlers on their latest single.

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

14 tracks from 2020 that sum up this skin-crawly year.

“Don’t Play It Straight” is out today, and features verses from Moor Mother, billy woods, Fielded, and more.

Tom Fec skips the clichés and gives us 85 minutes of sheer terror.

The New York rockers continue to make the most of a confusing 2020 with their second single this year.

Palermo recounts his band’s history of misfortunate recording sessions, and sheds light on how “The Great Dismal”—named after a swamp—may be more optimistic than he’d hoped.

The track is from the Californian band’s new LP “Love for the Lack of It,” which dropped last Friday.

The Oakland songwriter sheds some light on his complex new Americana rock opera.

The newly announced “Jockeys of Love” EP will be out January 29.

It’s the title track from the Chicago duo’s new album, out next Friday.

The East Coast rapper shares 12 musical cases supporting the existence of a higher being.

“I Wanna Be Your Dog, Boy” pairs the Stooges cover with their take on the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend.”