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

Deafheaven, Lonely People with Power
The experimental metal band’s sixth album relishes in the unexpected, containing some of their most extreme black-metal moments as well as some of their most tenderly fragile.

Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE
Following the story of a budding romance that helps heal Justin Vernon’s past relationship wounds, the LP is a slick and polished expansion upon the EP he released last fall.

Panchiko, Ginkgo
The cult UK quintet find a sense of clarity in their IDM-pop sound with introspective, chromatic, moving pieces on their most intentional, polished production to date.
Taylor Ruckle

The latest single from “Galactic Africa” pushes back on neo-colonialism in energetic Afrobeat fashion.

Kennedy Freeman shares the first of two full-band singles already planned for 2022.

The track arrives ahead of the “Jagged Little Pill” cast member’s debut album, “My Bed.”

The Québec-based songwriter celebrates the richness of her culture and the healing she’s achieved through transmitting it on her latest release.

The paradoxically upbeat single arrives ahead of their forthcoming self-titled EP.

The Palberta member’s solo debut channels the anguish and exhilarating possibility of a post-breakup period.

Taylor Vick’s comfort zone is the lilting, mid-tempo stuff her new album is founded on, opening up an expansive space around her nylon-string compositions.

Chamber-pop ornamentation and live-band grit weave around spiritual lyricism on the Cincinnati band’s third album.