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

Kraftwerk, Autobahn [50th Anniversary Edition]
Cleaned up with a new Dolby Atmos mix, Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider’s first foray into pure electronics is still recondite and abstruse (and louder) without sounding superficial.

Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)
Finding inspiration in Impressionist paintings and Gothic romance, Michelle Zauner’s glimmering and morose fourth album is a modern portrait of being exhausted in your daily yearning.

Young Widows, Power Sucker
The noise-rock trio’s first full-length in 11 years has all the punch and zip of a debut statement, and even feels a degree or two more thrillingly lean than its predecessors.
Will Schube

The songwriter’s new album I Don’t Know How But They Found Me! will arrive on April 25 via Dead Oceans.

The movie will arrive in theaters on May 7.

The Chicago rapper discusses how his upbringing in studios ultimately resulted in a dream collaboration with the hometown-icon producer, From the Private Collection of Saba and No I.D.

The single will arrive alongside the A24 film’s theatrical release on March 28.

The duo’s Let Me Out LP will arrive on April 24 via Deathbomb Arc.

LCD Soundsystem, TV on the Radio, and Remi Wolf will also perform as the New Jersey festival in September.

Bunky Becky Birthday Boy will arrive on April 4.

The project will be released via MIKE’s 10k on April 4.

Zach Condon’s new album A Study of Losses will arrive on April 18.

The new project from the FLOODfest vets will arrive on April 25 via Winspear.

The fest will take place between July 31 and August 3 at Chicago’s Grant Park.

The first single, a cover of Johnny Mercer’s 1944 recording “Dream,” is out now.

The songwriter’s fourth album will arrive on March 28 via Geffen Records.

The Smashing Pumpkins leader will perform seven shows in Chicago.

The new sci-fi horror thriller from the multi-hyphenate artist born Steven Ellison will arrive in theaters on March 21.

The band will be playing JBL’s Sound Bodega SXSW Showcase on Thursday, March 13.

The Stranger Things star’s new album will arrive on June 6 via AWAL.

Equally importantly, they also spoke with host Michael Kosta about dogs.

The track was originally released in 2019.

The producer talks stepping into the role of emcee on his newly released second album Leaving Home, a stark reflection on the joys and traumas of coming of age.