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

Matmos, Metallic Life Review
Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

Turnstile, Never Enough
The Baltimore hardcore collective distills and expands the essence of their breakout 2021 LP, leaning into the tension between explosiveness and a resulting uneasy stillness.

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.
Margaret Farrell

The five-piece swim in the deep end of their existential and musical curiosities on this unforgettable magnum opus.

“The Velvet Underground” is out October 15.

The two musicians are also going on tour together this fall.

The songwriter invited us to her converted-church home to discuss her new sophomore album “Any Shape You Take.”

“I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico” is out September 24 via Verve.

Today is the 25 year anniversary for their sophomore album “ATLiens.”

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.