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

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.

Fleshwater, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
The Massachusetts grungegazers settle on their sound with their second LP: a balancing of frantic energy with moody heaviness and an overall tone of passionately charged emo splendor.
Jesse Cline

The Goodie Mob rapper also discusses future projects on the latest installment of Sam I’s series of interviews with his collaborators on “Random Shit From the Internet Era.”

While we anticipate a new Arcade Fire record—and election results—the band gave us something to tide us over.

The Hulu film also features new music from Sia, Bebe Rexha, and Brandy Clark.

The lyric video features vintage footage of both groups in their ’80s heydays.

The installment titled “Becoming” begins at 10 a.m. PST, and will also feature poet/activist Ishmael Reed and musician Louie Vega.

The Edward Sharpe frontman joins Sam I for the first of several conversations the artist held with his collaborators on his new album “Random Shit From the Internet Era.”

The indie trio’s latest visual aims to benefit NIVA and the #SaveOurStages initiative.

The band’s vocalist plays “Home Again” and “What Is There” in Wimberley, Texas.

The songwriter also announces a November 10 live stream where he’ll play tracks from his debut EP “Side A.”

Pretty much everyone from Senator Elizabeth Warren to Eric Andre cameo in the video.

The four-song project will also get a 10-inch vinyl release on November 13 via Loma Vista.

Preview Wainwright’s first-ever ACL appearance before it airs tomorrow night.

The features-heavy debut LP from the multi-instrumentalist is out now.

The four-song EP from Jamil Rashad drops December 18 via Normaltown Records.

The songwriter gives an acoustic performance of “Sky Full of Tears” and “Let Love Heal” in his backyard.

Catch Day performing her own songs, as well as a Nina Simone cover, this Friday.

The acoustic single arrives ahead of the songwriter’s “Wednesday” EP, out November 6.

“The Truth Will Always Find a Way” and “Suited” arrive ahead of the record’s December 9 release.

Hear “American Landfill,” a reworking of the art-rock songwriter’s 2003 Bowie-featuring “Saviour.”

The LA-based songwriter also shares a playlist for Indigenous Peoples Day.