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

Clipse, Let God Sort Em Out
Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.

Nilüfer Yanya, Dancing Shoes
A follow-up to last fall’s full-length, this four-song EP sees the London-based songwriter strengthening her case for pop-chart status while continuing to prove that that’s not her goal.

Goon, Dream 3
Both brighter-eyed and harder-hearted, the LA quartet return with a third LP of full-bodied psych-shoegaze which settles deeply into Kenny Becker’s cataclysmic transitional life period.
Mike LeSuer

Former It Looks Sad. member Lamont Brown will self-release his second LP on August 22.

Former Feeble Little Horse member Ryan Walchonski enlisted members of Snail Mail and Tosser for these nine tracks, out now.

The single arrives ahead of the rapper’s NYC dates with Tyler, the Creator next week at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center.

Inspired by Aaron Bushnell and the Palestinian liberation movement, the track lands ahead of the artist’s third album, Inertia, out September 5 via XX Records.

The band’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” was used in a border patrol propaganda video posted to Instagram earlier this week.

The project founded by emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn are dropping their sophomore LP this week via Joyful Noise.

The single arrives ahead of the latest LP from former Flaming Lips member Jake Ingalls and Eric Martin, Lunar Manor.

The Austin-based noise-rock group shares their second single since signing with TODO Records following the release of last year’s self-titled debut.

The single announces the trio’s third album Feels Like Hell, out October 10 via Don Giovanni.

It’s the title track from the LA-based songwriter’s first LP since 2019’s Pity Boy, out this Friday via Get Better Records.

The Michigan gloom-and-doomgazers’ third LP expands the already-vast scope of their songs to incorporate elements that almost feel transparently autobiographical.

Aryan Ashtiani shares how eBay artifacts and vintage cars (well, old cars) inspired his vision on his newly released second album.

The Chicago-based musicians met up with Semones and her band for the first time to perform the track they’re featured on from the duo’s new album Horizon.

Australian producer Teneil Throssell shares a few songs by queer artists in the electronic/dance/DJ space she’s had on repeat over the past month.

Inspired by Jonathan Ames’ novel, the track appears on the songwriter’s upcoming collab-heavy LP Before the Future.

The multifaceted musician shares how his latest chapter was inspired by the patient sounds of Radiohead, Sigur Rós, Feist, and more.

Arriving with a camcorder-shot visual, the track lands ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s new LP We Were Bodies Underwater.

The Philly shoegazers’ new LP of the same name will arrive on July 25 via Born Losers Records.

Russell Marsden shares which songs inspired the writing on his band’s first three albums, all of which are getting re-released together this week in a brand new box set.

The new track introduces the trio’s Lemon Twigs–produced sophomore album Playin’ Dumb, out September 5.