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

It’s the title track off the Virginia singer-songwriter’s debut EP on Carpark.

The Montréal rockers’ new single follows their recent split with Charmer.

The single follows his “EP2!” from this past February.

Their new collaborative album “Half God” is out October 1 via Wikset Enterprise.

The Toronto rapper dropped the official art for his forthcoming album “Certified Lover Boy”—which seems cheesy even by Drake’s standards.

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.