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

John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with Elephant’s Memory, Power to the People: The Ultimate Collection
Produced by Sean Ono Lennon, this nine-CD, three-Blu-ray set ties together his parents’ raw, grimy Some Time in New York City LP with a pair of shows at Madison Square Garden.

Princess Nokia, Girls
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.

Blawan, SickElixir
A dense, monolithic collection, the English DJ’s true speaker-blower of a second album sits somewhere between industrial techno, post-dubstep, and IDM.
Margaret Farrell

The cover will appear on “Home in This World: Woody Guthrie’s Dust Bowl Ballads,” out September 10 on Elektra Records.

Off her third album “Solar Power,” the new single takes on the tropes of wellness culture.

The new visual from Annie Clark features three bedazzled but lackadaisical dancers, a flasher, and Demi Adejuyigbe.

The album—released with Don Giovanni Records, and featuring J.I.D., Jazz Cartier, Yung Baby Tate, and Smino—arrives September 24.

It’s the lead single from their sixth album “-io,” which is out October 22 via Matador.

The songwriter’s debut is out now via Fader Label.

It’s the duo’s first new music of 2021.

The limited edition reissue comes with a personal essay by Phoebe Bridgers.

The Chicago-based group is dropping their new EP “Girl K Is for the People” on September 10.

This one’s for all the “Hercules” (1997) heads out there.

The Chicago-based songwriter breaks down her EP “There’s Always Going to Be Something,” which is out now.

It’s the second single from the London singer’s third album “And Then Life Was Beautiful,” out September 24.

This is the third single from the NYC jazz group to be co-produced by Dave 1 and P-Thugg.

The Bill Benz–directed film is available September 17 through IFC Films.

The duo discuss unraveling the riddle of the unconscious on their second album together, “Animal.”

The new single follows this past March’s “Would You Mind Please Pulling Me Close.”

Her new EP “Something Instead” is out September 24.

The new track follows “Big Bang” from earlier this year.

It’s this year’s third single from the Los Angeles–based musician and part-time tattoo artist.

The two singles serve as the band’s first new material since 2019’s “Two Hands” and “U.F.O.F.”