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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Taylor Ruckle

The Aussie psych-rockers’ 23rd album in 10 years makes expanding your creative horizons sound like a genuine pleasure.

The single comes from their forthcoming sophomore LP No Drama, arriving November 4 via Carpark.

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.

Lloyd Ledingham’s latest track arrives ahead of their UK tour kicking off September 1 in Scotland.

Lili Trifilio talks feeling things in a big way on the Chicago outfit’s sophomore album, out now via Mom+Pop.

Their album Omniscient Cloud Cover comes out September 30 on Bob Nastanovich’s Brokers Tip Records.

Skye Holden offers a track-by-track breakdown of the album alongside an early stream of the full project.

The Chicago post-punks also answer a few Qs about their upcoming EP Nothing You Do Matters and working with Andrew.

The Winnipeg groups’ debut record 10/10 arrives September 9 via Midwest Debris.

Along with debuting a new visual for “Silent Waters,” Rachel Gordon breaks down the Philly hardcore group’s new album, out now via Quiet year.

The songwriter and filmmaker’s third album Catch the Light arrives June 17.

The beats on Florence Welch’s fifth album are more physical than ever, and the lyrics are darkly comic—all in service to that thrilling feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife.

Moaning bassist Pascal Stevenson’s debut solo record Scrutiny arrives June 17 via Felte.

The debut LP from the Hamilton, Ontario trio balances soaring guitars, soft atmospherics, and complicated spirituality.

A video for the track arrives ahead of the Pittsburgh group’s sophomore album, out June 3 via Crafted Sounds.

The Montana-based chiptune experimentalists’ debut LP Psychokinetic Love Songs is out April 29.

This reissue of the band’s final and least-praised record benefits most from the restored track order as intended by producer Nigel Godrich.

Shelby Dillon’s visual for the Falling in Love Is Not That Hard single arrives ahead of tonight’s album release show at The Hideout in Chicago.

While it doesn’t always live up to its most groundbreaking forebears, this sort-of posthumous release often succeeds in its own right.

The Chris Farren–directed visual announces Elise Okusami’s new album Nothing’s Ever Fine, which arrives April 8 via Polyvinyl.