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

Glare, Sunset Funeral
Transfixing from start to finish, the South Texas shoegazers’ debut is a dynamic, undulating audio portrait of the ups and downs of existence.

Perfume Genius, Glory
Backed by the incredible team he’s assembled over the years, Mike Hadreas’ seventh release is a folk album that remains as slippery, electrifying, and brilliantly unknowable as its lead single.

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.
Mischa Pearlman

The track arrives ahead of the Melbourne punks’ fifth LP Endless, out October 20 via Fat Wreck Chords.

The track was recorded during the same sessions as last year’s White Tiger LP.

Christopher Pappas’ new collection of songs How Do I Feel? arrives September 1 via Little Record Company.

Executed with precision and grace, the group’s first release in over a decade blends the darkly political with the profoundly personal.

Militarie Gun at Stereogum Range Life party at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Ian Shelton discusses the various roads which led to the LA punks’ debut LP, Life Under the Gun.

The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.

The Canadian noise-punks’ fourth record is out now via Dine Alone Records.

The duo’s second album Bound to Be will arrive June 23.

Ceschi Ramos, Get Dead’s Sam King, and NOFX’s Fat Mike discuss their debut album This Is Crime Wave, which draws from their own experiences in the criminal justice system—and a sitcom-like housing situation.

The Santa Barbara by way of Philly songwriter takes us through his “post-apocalyptic Americana” opus track by track.

On his sophomore solo LP, the former Exitmusic member ponders the highs and lows of existence through somber, gravelly vocals.

With their new album Ten Stories High out today, the band also shares some of their biggest influences on the recording.

The Pittsburgh politipunks’ 13th studio album is a culmination of everything they’ve been singing about since forming back in the late-’80s.

These 15 covers of R&B and soul classics are treated with both the reverence they deserve on their own terms, and with which Springsteen also clearly holds for them.

Alex Magnan breaks down each track on the NYC-based trio’s latest, out now via Equal Vision.

This self-titled fifth album is the sound of Jim Ward both finding and re-finding himself, his heritage and future coalescing with mostly youthful ebullience.

The 11 songs that comprise the French experimental post-hardcore trio’s third album are magnified reflections of the grotesqueries of modern life and society.

Ahead of their headlining set at Austin’s Levitation Fest this weekend, Jim Reid reflects on 40 years of the Scottish band’s existence, and shares what may lie ahead.

A mix of punk, post-hardcore, grunge, and pop, the Baltimore trio’s debut is a stunning burst of influences and experiences coalescing in a swirling swathe of anger and injustice.

Eric Bachmann takes us deeper into the band’s first LP since 1998, out now via Merge.