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

Dijon, Baby
On the follow-up to his 2021 debut, Dijon Duenas lays glitchy, psychedelic textures atop his familiar alt-R&B sound to evoke a fractured internet-like aesthetic that’s often mesmerizing.

Rich Brian, Where Is My Head?
The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.
Kim March

There’s also a Zach Galifianakis cameo.

The duo performed Gaynor’s iconic hit at Radio City Music Hall.

A blood-curdling new track from the score to A24’s “The Lighthouse,” out October 18.

It’s twenty-one minutes long, which is about the length of actual fall these days.

Their North American “Riceboy Sleeps” tour kicks off today.

All proceeds from the song will go to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and MusiCares.

Released on World Mental Health Day, the clip aims to raise awareness.

The punk group made a benefit record to help find a cure for ALS, a disease Shattuck suffered from.

The video is part of their “Thrash N Dash” series, wherein they set up somewhere and play/film/bail.

The TV broadcast episode will air early next year as part of ACL’s Season 45.

The Cure
Plus some other revelations from Robert Smith’s NME exclusive.

The relaunch includes an Eagle Rock storefront and an independent theater.

The Duffer Brothers aren’t going anywhere, but the show’s setting is.

Her new record “La Linda” is out November 15.

The ambient Aussie band’s “Onwards to Zion” is out October 18.

The Hollywood & Vine crossing will emulate London’s famous intersection in honor of the album’s fiftieth.

Her last record was 2012’s “The Idler Wheel,” so it’s high time.

Elizabeth (formally of Totally Mild) releases her debut “The Wonderful World of Nature” on November 1.

Thus far her 2020 U.S. tour plans consist of two nights in LA and Foxborough, MA next summer.

The track comes off “When I say to you Black Lightning,” out October 18.