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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Margaret Farrell

The popstar’s fifth studio album Dirt Femme is out October 14.

Dawn Richard
They’ve shared the first movement from the album that’s out October 21 via Merge.

Their forthcoming album The Car is out October 21.

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.