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

Softcult, See You in the Dark
The punk duo’s latest EP is more harmonious, reflective, and lyrically mature than previous outings as they maintain their goal of destabilizing patriarchal thinking.

Heartworms, A Comforting Notion
The buzzy UK group’s debut EP showcases Jojo Orme’s dizzying vocal style, as well as the Rolodex of varied influences she mines to produce something wholly original.

Depeche Mode, Memento Mori
The sonic sparseness of the band’s fifteenth album—and first since the passing of co-founder Andrew Fletcher—is a welcome retreat from their more conventional forays into universality over the past decade.
Stephan Boissonneault

With the Blur percussionist’s debut album Radio Songs out now, we discuss going solo and the wide variety of extracurriculars he’s been involved with since the Britpop icons’ hiatus.

The Toronto-based noise rockers’ upcoming LP We Found This arrives October 21 via Mothland.

Sebastian Murphy discusses how the post-punks’ latest album was inspired by conspiracy theories, humankind’s troglodytic beginnings, and a country-western aesthetic.

The chimerical record’s experimental powwow, psychic jazz, and gritty no-wave punk ranges from meditative to terrifying.

The single follows the Latvian neo-psych songwriter’s signing to Mothland.

The post-everything krautrockers’ sophomore album is a towering release fit for nebulous contemplation and feelings of foreboding astral projection.

The freakout post-punk group’s debut EP is the perfect musical cocktail of the appealingly bizarre.

Grian Chatten discusses the seediest parts of the band’s new album and his ever-changing relationships with Dublin and London.

“Subterranea,” the second album from the icy-hot psychedelic post-punks, arrives March 25 via Mothland.

The sonically crippling debut EP from the avant-punk five-piece feels like a hematic out-of-body experience.