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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Will Schube

The pair’s second release of 2021 smoothly builds on the chemistry they established on that first tape.

The band talks addiction, recovery, and their hiatus—and how these elements led to their heaviest album to date.

The musician talks grief, her memoir, releasing songs without the pressure of a record press cycle, and her struggle with writing happy tunes.

Yoni Wolf details the impulse and happenstance that informed the band’s fractured new album.

Following the band’s Shaky Knees set, Conor Murphy wrestles with musical and existential questions.

There are fewer layers, less fireworks; every part coalesces quietly.

White Denim
When they’re not on the road, James Petralli and Steve Terebecki are taking creative control with their own studio.

On “Guns,” the Detroit rapper continues to defy assigned labels.

The first-time filmmaker on becoming a documentarian-of-all-trades—and trying not to miss anything.

Dr. Octagon / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
Tired of waiting for everyone else to join them, Kool Keith, Dan the Automator, and DJ QBert have touched back down on Earth.

With A24’s latest triumph now in theaters, Stetson walks us through his collaboration with director Ari Aster and the film scores that have shaped his work.

La Luz are turning their garage rock early days into something shimmering and alluring, yet laced with venom and sharp edges.

On her debut solo LP, H.C. McEntire remains an effusive, unrelenting force amidst a shifted landscape.

The Montreal pop duo experiments with optimistic themes on their latest musical cocktail.

photo by Nick Ebeling
The Savages guitarist walks us through the making and spirit of her score for Nick Ebeling’s new Dennis Hopper documentary.

“Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” is the logical conclusion of Spoon’s commercial appeal and their innovativeness, an effort seamlessly weaving between earworm melodies and genuine experimentation.

Sometimes the best things are the ones that remain the same.

Detroit’s most amiable punks explores their sound and considerably extend its boundaries.

From a quiet, smooth opening, Kamasi Washington’s new EP grows to enormous heights.

Frost’s music can be grating, obstructive, evil, sinister, and ugly. Yet there’s something both charming and beautiful in how he embraces these characteristics.