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

Princess Nokia, Girls
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.

Blawan, SickElixir
A dense, monolithic collection, the English DJ’s true speaker-blower of a second album sits somewhere between industrial techno, post-dubstep, and IDM.

Snõõper, Worldwide
The Nashville punks’ second album is less sonically gritty than previous projects, but has an added intensity largely stemming from an expanded studio band and sleeker production.
Margaret Farrell

The single follows last month’s “Far Apart,” the Toronto musician’s first track in two years.

Her sophomore album Hold the Girl is out September 16 via Dirty Hit.

The first three episodes of Björk: Sonic Symbolism will be released on September 1.

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.