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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

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.
Kim March

The Aussie musician (not the pie) is releasing a record February 21 via Cascine.

Illuminati Hotties
The LA indie rockers release a new tune about feelin’ worthless in a relationship.

Two young rappers from the art collective have a small solo project.

Filmed in New Orleans and Haiti, the video celebrates the disparate locations’ cultural connection in advance of the Krewe du Kanaval festival.

The electronic duo visit an animal shelter and encourage you to adopt in Los Angeles.

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.