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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Mike LeSuer

Next week the Bay Area band sets off on a string of live dates spanning the East Coast and Midwest US.

The self-titled debut from the new collective featuring TV on the Radio’s Kyp Malone, various other Oh Sees/Bent Arcana alumni, and more arrives October 13 via Castle Face.

It’s been a tough four and a half months, but the band has surprise-released their follow-up to April’s First Two Pages of Frankenstein.

Jummy Aremu returns five years after her Getaway EP for her debut single with Kill Rock Stars (US) and Bella Union (UK/Europe).

The Floridian punks share scenes from the Eastern half of their US tour supporting their new LP The Whaler as they head out west this week.

14 tracks that helped Lauren Denitzio, well, trust their gut while writing and recording their fifth LP.

Tabor Rupp’s latest dream-pop collection Coping Habits arrives in full tomorrow.

Lizzie Powell queers Twin Peaks in the video for the seven-minute instrumental jam from their upcoming fifth album Performances.

The piano ballad lands ahead of the Carissa’s Wierd founding member’s new solo record The Last Night of Sadness.

It’s the title track from the duo’s sophomore release, arriving September 29.

The track and visual come paired with an active phone line and a “Suburban Solutions” riesling in collaboration with Osmote Wines.

The London trio continue their experimentation into space-age ambient pop on the latest single from their forthcoming album Afternoon X.

Patrick J. Smith’s returns with yoyo, his first LP in five years, on October 13 via Grind Select.

The songwriter’s third studio album Utopian will arrive November 3 via Antifragile Music.

The Montreal-based vocalist’s fourth album of the same name arrives September 22 via Ensoul Records.

Celebrating 50 years of hip-hop, the event will take place in NYC at the corner made famous by the group’s Paul’s Boutique album cover.

Devo
In the midst of their final tour run, the new wave trailblazers will release a box set of hits and rarities on October 20.

The visual debuted over the weekend at a performance in Lisbon.

The remastered LP comes with a handful of B-sides and several full-concert live recordings, including their final set performed in Seattle in 1994.

The LA fourpiece featuring members of Beach Fossils and Cold Beat reveals their new LP A Dog a Deer a Seal will drop November 10 via Get Better Records.