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.
Nevin Martell

Armed only with a dog-eared Neruda paperback, a bottle of Pepto, and their insatiable appetites, and writer and a chef make their way around Chile.

The Charlatans UK / courtesy of the band
“Enduring” is the word that comes to mind when thinking of Manchester mainstays The Charlatans UK. Over the more than…

Ride 2015 header / photo by Piper Ferguson
Andy Bell and Mark Gardener of legendary shoegaze-defiers Ride reflect on the band’s past and look forward into its future.

Sharon Jones / 2014 / photo by Kyle Dean Reinford
2014: In which the soul legend beat cancer, headlined The Apollo, sipped tequila with Andy Cohen, and (finally) got a Grammy nom

In a way, this We Are the (Indie) World get-together is a fitting summation of Beck’s entire career. It flits from one fascination to the next, never stopping long enough to take root.