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.
Taylor Ruckle
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The debut from Open Mike Eagle, Still Rift, and Video Dave is a full-length meditation on middle age, memory, and the parallel histories of commercial hip-hop and brick-and-mortar business.
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The new collection of recordings benefitting the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund will arrive June 28 via Gardenhead Records.
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This essential document of the new wave band’s arc as they perfected their fusion of melancholy and club music gets a no-strings-attached remaster in its ideal double-LP form.
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Maybe covering everyone’s least favorite Billy Joel song is just a safer, more grown up version of airing out your most embarrassing feelings.
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Caroline Weinroth’s newly announced EP I Want You will arrive September 22.
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On their sophomore LP, the Montreal dream-pop outfit slims down while leveling up the tension and unease.
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The bedroom-pop duo dive into dub and ska on the new track from their forthcoming Chant EP.
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The shape-shifting experimental artist’s sixth LP strips back some of their last effort’s retro glam flashiness, but for once Tumor focuses on refining rather than reinventing.
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Steven Perez and co-producer Malcolm Martin offer a track-by-track breakdown of the project, out now via Citrus City Records.
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It’s the first track from Liz Lehman’s upcoming LP Retinal Bloom, out May 26 via Needlejuice Records.
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The LA-based garage rockers’ latest EP Is This Where the Party Is? arrives May 19.
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With their eight album out now via Don Giovanni, the trio walk us through the unlikely inspirations and technical puzzles behind each song.
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The full soundtrack for the VR game of the same name arrives on January 27, four days before the game itself launches.
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The Brooklyn chamber-folk duo’s latest was inspired by vocalist/guitarist Alexia Antoniou literally working the graveyard shift.
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The cassette-only release marks the duo’s first new music since 2016’s Ugly Laugh LP.
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The melancholy track anticipates the South Carolina–born five-piece’s sophomore record.
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The Richmond-based bedroom-pop artist’s new EP You Know, I Love You is arriving soon on Quiet Year Records.
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The Aussie psych-rockers’ 23rd album in 10 years makes expanding your creative horizons sound like a genuine pleasure.
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The single comes from their forthcoming sophomore LP No Drama, arriving November 4 via Carpark.
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The LA-by-way-of-Chicago rapper discusses early influences—both musical and technological—and his eighth LP a tape called component system with the auto reverse.