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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Margaret Farrell

Her forthcoming album “star-crossed” is out September 10.

Sawayama is one of 53 artists covering songs from Metallica’s self-titled album for its 30th anniversary.

It’s the second single from Meg Duffy’s project “Fun House,” coming October 22.

The seven tracks include five of Smith’s classics as well as covers of Bob Dylan and Stevie Wonder.

The duo also shared the previously physical-only B-side “The Fortune Teller’s Revenge.”

“Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television),” their first soundtrack in seven years, is out October 1.

It’s the first look from his live album “You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down” out September 10.

The single arrives ahead of Aaron Maine’s upcoming album “All Day Gentle Hold !” that’s out October 8.

Her debut album “Voyage to Mars” is out November 5 via Luminelle.

It’s the second single from the Oakland-based musician’s album “Wayfinder” coming October 1.

His album “325i” is out October 22 via Fat Possum.

The single arrives ahead of Kevin Martin’s new album “Fire,” dropping this Friday via Ninja Tune.

Her fourth studio album will arrive September 10 with an accompanying film featuring Eugene Levy, Victoria Pedretti, and Princess Nokia.

Casper Clausen discusses the newest single from “Windflowers,” out October 8 via City Slang, in a brief Q&A.

The Baltimore mainstay’s major label debut is out today via Asylum Records.

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.”