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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Mischa Pearlman

While there are slivers of Superchunk, early R.E.M., The Lemonheads, and Hüsker Dü here, the Liverpool punks’ debut also shimmers with its own distinct personality.

We caught up with Blake Schwarzenbach ahead of the punk trio’s belated 25-year anniversary tour for their last record, which kicks off tonight.

This tenth studio album from the Gainesville punks is a positive and triumphant dance in the face of trauma.

The Stockholm-based band’s sixth full-length draws you deeply into the warm memories that serve as its foundation.

This third album of black metal incorporating African-American spirituals steps further into the future while reasserting the gruesome events of the past.

The balance between light and dark is both more pronounced and more nuanced than ever before on the British metal band’s sixth album.

The addition of live recordings, B-sides, and covers from the era provide great context for this album, adding to its dark, gritty atmosphere.

The group’s 5th LP tones down the dark, nervous energy that was previously at the core of their identity.

The duo’s 13th full-length often sounds less like a collection of songs than a manifestation of the frequency of existence.

This 11th studio album isn’t as cohesive as some of the band’s previous efforts, but it shows they’re still evolving.

Mikaiah Lei discusses the new perspective that influenced his sophomore album that was seven years in the making.

Beneath the facepalm titles on the band’s third full-length lie songs full of heart, purpose, and meaning.

Chris Simpson also talks the past, present, and future of the band in a Q&A about his accompanying vinyl reissue project.

The third full-length from Jack Antonoff feels devoid of heart and soul, fizzling and fading forgettably into the background.

The Daughters vocalist’s solo debut captures the collapse of society over the course of a tormented, uneven 9 tracks.

The posthumous debut from the New Hollywood actress is an album of ghosts and haunted hearts.

There’s still darkness present on the noise rock band’s latest EP, but it’s more of a shadow than an abyss.

The songwriter’s new collection of drawings is a practical, humorous, and irreverent guide to overcoming his (and, by extension, our) anxieties and depression.

While often an uneven mess of sound, there are some real gems to be found on this DC Comics compilation.

The debut LP from the At the Drive-In co-founder tussles with indie-pop and boisterous stadium rock.