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.
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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
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Sinai Vessel, I Sing
Caleb Cordes provides a thoughtfully nuanced thesis statement for his heartland indie-rock project as he paints a portrait of an artist working under the long shadow of late capitalism.
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BLK ODYSSY, 1-800-FANTASY
On his third showcase of vivid storytelling under the moniker, Juwan Elcock adds early 2000s pop-rock to his pre-established melting pot of R&B, hip-hop, funk, and jazz.
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Wand, Vertigo
The Cali psych-rockers offer tangible connections between their early, blazing garage bashers and later forays into more progressive terrain with their adventurously cohesive sixth LP.
Mischa Pearlman
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The new supergroup featuring members of Mineral, Boys Life, Christie Front Drive, and more will release their self-titled debut on August 30 via Spartan Records.
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The long-running New Jersey emo project harks back to the desperate, youthful energy of their earliest output with more profundity, introspection, and consideration in their lyrics.
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The Birmingham-based songwriter’s latest is an intense tug of war between light and dark, which ultimately soundtracks the healing of scars and the gathering of strength.
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The native New Yorkers (for now) will release A Paradoxical Theory of Change, their sophomore album for Fat Wreck Chords, on June 28.
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Returning to his roots in jazz, the songwriter revisits familiar standards of the genre with a perfect combination of respect and reinvention.
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The debut solo album from Portishead’s vocalist poignantly straddles a divide between the bucolic and the experimental, past and the present, youth and older age.
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The punk outfit’s hallmarks remain as powerful as ever on their guest-heavy tenth record, which feels less like a swan song than a reassertion of intent.
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The Pernice Brothers and Grandaddy songwriters share a profound love of biking, so we got the pair to talk about that. And they did. A lot.
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Brian McTernan’s hardcore endeavor shares their first new music since their 2022 Hello Sun EP, with both tracks out now via Equal Vision Records.
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Punk rock’s premiere cover band/trolls will release the full performance under the title Blow It…at Madison’s Quinceañera on June 14 via Fat Wreck Chords.
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The set took place on November 18 as the Minneapolis-based indie-pop outfit was touring their then-new release.
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Playful but serious, retro but thoroughly modern, Lizzie Killian sets her insecurities to melodies that belie their ’90s-sourced inspiration on her debut album.
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Challenging and confrontational, both hardcore-punk bands on this split EP manage to capture the violence of life on a dying planet while offering hope that all’s not lost.
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In our latest digital cover, which features an exclusive behind-the-scenes video of his recent tour, we explore the many facets of the artist as he continues to tease his fourth LP while expanding his resumé by writing arrangements for Beyoncé, touring with Lil Yachty, and covering Talking Heads for A24’s upcoming tribute album.
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Densely textured yet sparsely minimal, Irish songwriter Constance Keane’s second solo album is unrelenting in its intense emotions.
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The Rochester emo-pop four-piece gets the balance of tender elegy and post-adolescent reckless abandon perfectly right on all 12 of their sophomore album’s formidable songs.
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The Scottish duo’s first album in seven years shimmers with a noticeable sense of freedom as the tracklist unspools into a free-for-all collection that’s both challenging and fulfilling.
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Although dominated by his distinctive vocal warbling, Boeckner’s solo debut is far from just Wolf Parade lite as it leans into retro-futuristic takes on Springsteen, Depeche Mode, and other sounds of the ’80s.
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A powerful meditation on the real nature of death, their ninth album demonstrates that the Vancouver five-piece hasn’t settled into anything even remotely routine.
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Fueled by the same raw and unfiltered emotional gravitas that haunted Bright Eyes’ early recordings, the Chicago duo’s lush debut draws you into a rich, layered world.