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

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.

Clipse, Let God Sort Em Out
Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.
Margaret Farrell

The bizarre visual arrives with the title track from her forthcoming album out September 24 on Sumerian Records.

“Brighter Days (Are Before Us)” is the latest single from their forthcoming debut EP “Model Citizen,” out August 13.

The track follows her June collaboration “Say Yes” featuring VanJess.

“Beauty from construct, construct from purpose.”

It’s the lead single from her sophomore album “Teartracks,” out October 8.

The debut EP is out today via Human Re-Sources.

It’s the second single from her self-titled debut album coming September 10 on La Honda Records/Thirty Tigers.

The two tracks didn’t make the cut for their 2017 album “Love What Survives.”

The duo’s new album “Texis” is out September 10 on Mom + Pop Music.

The group’s forthcoming album “GLOW ON” is out August 27 via Roadrunner Records.

The new single is from her third EP “The Best,” out August 20.

The cover follows this year’s “Show Me How You Disappear” LP, out now on Polyvinyl.

Eric Reyes’ debut EP “Suburban Indie Rock Star” is getting a re-release that features two new tracks.

The video was directed by Patti Harrison and Alan Resnick.

The duo’s album “Sun and Settled Days” is out July 30 via Eye Dull.

The track is from the Nashville group’s forthcoming album “Full Time Smile,” which is out September 10.

“Place Is” is out this Friday, July 30 on Bar/None Records.

It’s the second single from her debut album “Before I Die,” which is out September 10 via Ninja Tune.

The video she co-directed with Matt Copson finds Polachek teleporting within a labyrinth of boxes.

The new single features rapper Jack Harlow and was produced by Kanye West and Take a Daytrip.