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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Timothy Brown

The Australian DJ has uploaded her steamy set in an unexpected place.

The track is taken from Evan Dando and company’s current covers album, “Varshons 2.”

DYLAN LEBLANC
The Shreveport native sings for the soul of America on the latest song from “Renegade.”

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco / photo by Suzanne Cordeiro
Kamasi Washington, Courtney Barnett, and Sharon Van Etten will also perform at the January 2020 event.

The Strokes / photo by Aaron Schorch
It’s all one big, lovable mess, much like The Strokes themselves.

The make-out act of 2013 returns with a special piano-based project.

Flying Lotus at FORM Arcosanti 2018 / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The Brainfeeder producer reveals North American tour dates to support new album “Flamagra.”

Peter More at home in Ft. Worth, Texas
The Fort Worth native follows his musical muse to Mexico and scores Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen for a producer.

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV
The vid for her first new song in three years might be one of the best movies of the year.

Tame Impala / photo by Kirby Gladstein
The Australian psych-rock heroes have revealed new headlining North American tour dates.

The emo rapper picks hot delivery spots in LA, NY, Chicago, SF, and Miami ahead of his Coachella 2019 Weekend Two set.

Crowd / Coachella 2015 Weekend 1 / photo by Max Sweeney
The festivities will be shown over a single channel, including prerecorded segments from around the world.

Gary Clark Jr. at Lollapalooza 2015 / by Chad Kamenshine
The fiery three-song set showcases Clark’s most recent LP, “This Land.”

“I wanted to peel it back to the very basics and build a good foundation. This is me in true, raw form as a musician.”

The NYC disco revivalists throw it back to 1983 with their must-watch video for “Outta My Head.”

The song captures an aching sense of hope and longing with lilting vocal melodies that intertwine with plaintive acoustic guitars.

The Brooklyn band finds the sweet spots of modern life with bubbly pop gems and deep nostalgia.

The track injects genuine R&B vibes into Bad Sounds’ panoramic pop, lush with Motown horns and crisp, falsetto vocals.

The Strokes, Twenty One Pilots, Flume, J Balvin, Kacey Musgraves, and yes, Shaquille O’Neal will all be at the Chicago fest.

Flume at Air + Style / photo by Adam Maresca
The four-part documentary chronicles how the Australian producer became an international sensation.