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

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.
Will Schube

Nick Thorburn announces the band’s new album What Occurs will be out on June 21.

The GRAMMY-nominated band’s fourth album will arrive on August 23 via XL.

FLOOD will be sponsoring the first of the two shows scheduled for August 10 and 11.

The rapper’s new EP will arrive on May 10 via Fifty Records.

The project also announced a slew of global tour dates in support of their forthcoming LP X’s.

Vampire Weekend invited Paris Hilton for a round of cornhole, Lana Del Rey brought out Billie Eilish, and more surprises from the fest.

St. Vincent, Ethel Cain, Omar Apollo, and hometown heroes Feeble Little Horse are also scheduled to perform at the Pittsburgh event in September.

The UK post-punk group discusses their new debut album This Could Be Texas and the sense of limbo and alienation that inspired it.

All sets will be available to watch at the official Coachella YouTube channel.

The Injury Reserve/By Storm emcee talks stepping out on his own for his debut solo album and the 100-plus degree Arizona temperatures that helped inspire it.

The band formed just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Portishead vocalist’s new album Lives Outgrown will arrive May 17 via Domino.

According to Erez, the track is a “musical middle finger.”

The actor-musician’s fourth LP is a carnival of some of the most wonderfully strange ideas to populate the relatively staid history of indie rock—even if he tends to get lost in his own whimsy.

The drummer’s new LP The Heartening will be released on April 29.

The songwriter’s new album will arrive on April 26 via Orindal Records.

The London-by-way-of-Vancouver songwriter’s third collection of indie pop is out now via Full Time Hobby.

The producer’s new album will arrive on June 7 via XL.

The jazz giant’s new album will arrive on May 3 via Young.

The sibling duo’s new album Cape Forestier will arrive on May 10.