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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

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.
Margaret Farrell

Their debut album I Love to Lie is out October 21 via Dirty Hit.

The single arrives with a video drawing heavy influence from Alice in Wonderland.

The duo ran through the rain to make it in time.

It’s the second single from her album Fossora, which arrives September 30.

Meg Duffy shares “Greatest Weapon” and “Under the Water” with the latter featuring longtime pal Amelia Meath on lead vocals.

The title track from Olsen’s latest album gets a country-fied makeover.

The new single follows the trio’s recent album Blue Skies, released this past May.

The Zambia-born artist shares how a return home inspired her powerful sophomore LP As Above, So Below.

“The song feels as if it’s the love child of Pharrell Williams and The Neptunes as much as Jack White.”

“Please TRUST the bangers are on the way. but first: how’s your heart?”

News of the Asheville-based group’s signing to the indie giant arrives with a video for the nearly nine-minute single.

The smart-mouthed junk food team returns with a feature film on November 8.

The set features a new album mix, a 100-page book with a foreword written by Paul McCartney, an essay by Questlove, detailed track notes, and other goodies.

Their show High School, which is based on the duo’s bestselling memoir, debuts next month.

It’s the second single from his forthcoming album FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE, out October 14.

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.