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

Elfman is bringing his soundtrack back to the live stage this year on December 9 and 10 in London.

The group gives us one more glimpse of their forthcoming album The Car before it arrives this Friday.

Hakim’s third album Cometa is out this Friday, October 21, via ATO.

The Sticks & Stones cover comes from the tribute album Endless Possibilities that’s out on October 31.

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.