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

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.
Margaret Farrell

Beware of the Monkey, the newest album from the rapper-producer, is out December 21.

It’s officially the end of her Last Year Was Weird era.

Her forthcoming debut album HADJA BANGOURA is out November 4 via 4AD.

Catching up with Asha Lorenz at a London pub in the wake of the group’s new LP Anywhere But Here.

They’re also playing two LA shows at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge on November 15 and 16.

Their new live EP also features three singles from their latest self-titled album and a cut from 2019’s Saves the World.

It’s the latest single from the duo’s forthcoming album Marlowe 3, out October 28 via Mello Music Group.

Their forthcoming EP Ocelli, the follow-up to their 2019 self-titled debut, is out November 18 via Fire Talk.

Their previously announced album Songs of a Lost World still doesn’t have a release date.

Along with the global tour, the reunited punks have announced that their new single “Edging” is out this Friday, October 14.

Wet Leg
The forthcoming comp Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All aims to support organizations facilitating abortion access.

RIYL: watching people snort blood and puke bullets.

Woods returns with her first new original music in two years.

It’s the first glimpse of the musician’s full-length project due this winter.

It’s the first original music from Karin Dreijer since 2017’s Plunge.

Their third album Endure is out November 4 via Rough Trade.

Loretta Lynn
Looking back on the legacy of the artist, whose life story was as inspirational and unforgettable as her music.

Following this summer’s Face the Wall LP, she’s announced a new EP called I’m Doing Well, Thanks for Asking that’s out November 11.

Memento Mori is due spring of 2023.

In our latest digital cover story, the Stranger Things star shares how his creative processes for songwriting and acting overlap, as well as how his second solo LP DECIDE was inspired by a need for change.