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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Margaret Farrell

Her sophomore album Protector is out October 28 via Partisan.

It’s the third single from the group’s forthcoming album Doggerel that’s out September 30.

It’s the first song and video from her forthcoming album Fossora>.

Kendrick Lamar
The track appears on Lamar’s recent album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers.

The follow-up to 2016’s Hedonism is out October 28 via Young Art Records.

The project follows last year’s singles “Black Stone” and “Blue Liquid.”

Cracker Island is out February 24 via Warner Records.

The new album is out September 30.

The New Orleans punks’ third album Endure is out November 4 via Rough Trade.

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.