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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
Will Schube

The San Luis Obispo event will take place on May 2 and 3.

The performance came during the Victoires de la Musique award ceremony.

Sabrina Teitelbaum’s second album If You Asked for a Picture is out May 2 via Partisan Records.

The Breeders band leader will begin her North American tour tomorrow.

The song will be featured on the artist’s forthcoming LP, The Agonist.

The folk singer’s sophomore album will arrive on April 25 via Dead Oceans.

The project will arrive on April 4 via Mom+Pop.

Bloodless will hit stores and streamers on April 25.

The Vancouver-based songwriter’s new LP will arrive on May 16.

The album is a free interpretation of Verzeichnis einiger Verluste, the novel by German author Judith Schalansky.

The collaborative track is out now via Warp Records.

Michelle Zauner’s new LP For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is out March 21.

The Canadian punks’ fifth album will arrive on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise Records.

The month-long set of dates begins on July 15 in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Is will arrive on March 21 via ATO.

New single “Everything Is Peaceful Love” will arrive on Friday with a music video directed by John Wilson.

In our latest digital cover story, the LA-based songwriter details her music’s evolution into a full-band affair while bringing an equally communal focus to the open-ended subject matter explored on her proper debut album with her backing band The Attachment Theory.

The singer was known for her collaborations with The Flaming Lips before her tragic passing last year.

Only the Singer, the new album from Garcia Peoples bassist Andy Cush, will arrive on February 28.

The collection was organized by Kevin Haskins and Nick Launay.