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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Taylor Ruckle

The London-based indie rockers’ latest EP is an anti-formalist return to form.

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.