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

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.

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.
Margaret Farrell

Their album Nicks and Grazes is out October 14 via Saddle Creek.

It’s the third single from their forthcoming album Crybaby, out October 21 via Mom+Pop.

The group’s seventh studio album drops October 21.

Scrapped after Melody Prochet and co-producer Kevin Parker broke up in 2013, the project is finally seeing the light of day on September 30.

The musicians broke a sweat on stage with their exercise headbands and light exercise choreography.

The new single arose from an unexpected encounter with a drum machine.

It’s the title track from his forthcoming album out October 28 via Daptone Records.

Sophie Allison also shares a “slowed + reverb” version of the Sometimes, Forever single.

The new single announces his forthcoming album Cometa, which is out October 21.

Their forthcoming album SUCKERPUNCH is out October 7 via Public Consumption and Fueled by Ramen.

Evidently elf ears and vampire teeth are just side quests.

August 15, the day his star was unveiled, has also been announced as Nipsey Hussle Day in Los Angeles.

The single is from DJ Premier’s Hip Hop 50: Vol. 1 EP that dropped last month.

It’s the second single from his Secretly Canadian debut Please Have a Seat, out October 7.

The Orange County duo are releasing their new album Horseshit on Route 66 on September 8.

Their fourth album Magic Hour is due out this fall.

It’s the second single from the trio’s forthcoming album Cool It Down, which is out September 30.

It’s the second single from their forthcoming album Blue Rev, out October 7.

His new project Component System with the Auto Reverse is out October 7.

(L-R) Chris Stein, Gary Valentine, Debbie Harry, Jimmy Destri and Clem Burke of Blondie posing in a neon tunnel in NYC. September 1976. © Bob Gruen/www.bobgruen.com Please contact Bob Gruen’s studio to purchase a print or license this photo. email: [email protected] phone: 212-691-0391
Their forthcoming boxset Blondie: Against the Odds 1974-1982 is out August 26.