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

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.

The Black Keys, No Rain, No Flowers
The blues-rock duo sifts through wreckage in search of meaning and growth on their 13th album only to come up with answers that are every bit as pat and saccharine as the title suggests.

JID, God Does Like Ugly
After 15 years of writing and developing verses, the Dreamville rapper has become a master of the form on his fourth album as he finds resolution and comes to recognize his purpose.
Margaret Farrell

The Chicago four-piece, whose debut is out today, details nature’s impact on the album and its many emotional hues.

The band’s debut feels like a metamorphosis, a constant shifting of skins and textures.

It’s the second single off Blake’s next album “Friends That Break Your Heart,” which is out September 10.

Bartees Strange, Glitch Gum, and The Marías take on the David Crosby antagonist.

The wet and wild remix arrives ahead of Sarah Tudzin’s forthcoming album “Let Me Do One More.”

The Ontario-based trio is scheduled to release their debut album in early 2022.

“Juno” is out October 15 on Island Records.

The new Epitaph signees are releasing “FUCK THESE FUCKIN FASCISTS” on September 24.

The single and its video arrive ahead of “Sympathy for Life,” out October 22 on Rough Trade.

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.