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

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.

Cory Hanson, I Love People
The Wand frontman’s fourth solo outing confronts American grift culture with hope and a communal spirit, as his backing players seem to prevent him from turning inward and catastrophizing.
Mischa Pearlman

The instrumental project featuring members of Against Me! and Gracer have also put physical copies of their new EP of the same name up for pre-order.

With her career-spanning retrospective Palimpsesa out now via Topshelf, the songwriter assures us that this compilation serves as something very far from an ending.

Harrowing and fun in equal measure, the Ontario groups’ fifth record is a deliberate return to their raw punk ’n’ roll roots with a newfound sense of vulnerability lying beneath all the noise.

The Canadian alt-pop artist discusses her sixth LP A6, feeling connected to her younger self, and learning to live in the moment.

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

The Philadelphia-based group take us deeper into the thrilling narrative conclusion of their third album of prog-metal experimentation, out now via Equal Vision.

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.

On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

With the Toronto punks releasing their fifth album Who Will Look After the Dogs? today, we grill lead guitarist Steve Sladkowski about the band’s back-to-basics approach.

The Fort Collins punks share the first track from their seventh album Nobody’s Going to Heaven just in time for May Day.

Arriving a decade after the formation of the Atlanta emo-punk trio, the 10 sophisticated, visceral songs on this debut feel like a release of pent-up energy.

Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts.

The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.

The “post-glacier” goblin-punks discuss their new album Daydream Indignation, Portland, Oregon’s flourishing music scene, and manifesting friendship.

The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

Vocalist Coco Kinnon fills us in on the journey to making the Nashville-based pop-punk trio’s debut album My Apologies to the Chef sound “100 percent” their own.

These nine shelved recordings remain resplendent explosions of emotion and wonder 34 years later, despite the then-nascent Boston shoegazers clearly striving to find their sound.

The tender pain of Jojo Orme’s post-punk debut mostly maintains the sinister nature of its dual inspiration—suffering brought upon by war and through fractured relationships—quite well.