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

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.

Pelican, Flickering Resonance
The tone of the Chicago post-metal band’s first album in six years feels triumphant, like ascending the peak of the mountain that adorns its cover.
Jesse Cline

The LA garage pop band’s singer/guitarist Lydia Night provides commentary + guitarist Genessa Gariano offers illustrations.

The two sat down at a Detroit nail salon (of course) to discuss healthcare and police brutality.

The lineup also features Billy Idol, Perry Farrell, Wayne Kramer, and more.

Hello Deli: Midge (Rachel Brosnahan) and Susie (Alex Borstein) nosh and schmooze in Season 2 of Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
Return to the low, low prices of 1959 in celebration of “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”

The young ukulele talent is taking over our Instagram tomorrow.

Their collab is called “Hot Girl Summer,” because of course it is.

His Purple Mountains tour was supposed to kick off this weekend.

JJUUJJUU / photo by Kirby Gladstein
This year’s surrealist music fest will be nostalgia-fueled.

Lil Pump / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
This year’s Chicago fest lineup features Mitski, Kacey Musgraves, The Strokes, Tame Impala, and more.

A$AP Rocky at Camp Flog Gnaw / photo by Rozette Rago
He’s been released from custody until the verdict.

The sisters are definitely having a hot girl summer.

Her full-length “IMMUNITY” is out August 2 via The Fader.

The Museum of Weed opens August 3 in Los Angeles.

Did Travis kill all of these people, or what?

Tinariwen / photo by Christopher Douglas
The guitarists from West Africa are being attacked on social media ahead of a North Carolina show.

The Wizard’s Cauldron promises to school you in magic + mixology, mimicking one of Snape’s not-at-all-traumatizing potions classes.

The famous movie theater chain opens tonight in the city where movies are made.

Preview: The Peach Pit Is Back | BH90210
There will be milkshakes, nostalgic photo ops, and maybe even The Flaming Lips.

The Grammys producer is stepping down; thank u, next.

He tweeted that he’s down for the Area 51 raid and released an animated vid for “Old Town Road” in support.