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

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

Lady Gaga, Mayhem
The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.
Mike LeSuer

The project of rappers Doseone and Mestizo shares the single along with a truncated version and B-side “King Me.”

Josh Sanchez’s latest release will be the Paraguayan songwriter’s first for Hit the North Records.

Brandon’s telling everyone what time it is. It’s probably, like, 9:30. / photo by Dave Decker
The West Coast punks document their recent tour through Florida before heading out to the UK next month.

Growing at the Edges, Jordan Lee’s own collection of bangers, arrives Friday via Transgressive.

Part two of the duo’s Chaos Theory EP series arrives this week via TOKiMONSTA’s Young Art Records.

The LA-based songwriter’s new LP Year Away will arrive October 13 via Night Bloom Records.

The Great Grandpa vocalist shares how long drives and short stories helped them shape their new record, out now via Double Double Whammy.

Along with the visual for the track from Curt Kiser’s new EP of reworked recordings, the band shares a handful of shots from their recent performance at The National’s Homecoming Festival.

Till You Return, the New Jersey–based punks’ second album, drops October 20 via Don Giovanni Records.

The Seattle hardcore-punks’ third LP Find Out drops this Friday via MNRK Heavy.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter’s latest album Visions of the Daytime Moon will be released on October 6.

Spanning vastly different genres, continents, and emotions, the six-song collection is out now via Transgressive.

The video arrives alongside Dark Celebration, the long-anticipated sophomore album from the project formed by Hot Hot Heat’s Steve Bays and The Gay Nineties’ Parker Bossley.

After selling out shows for a reunion tour supporting a pair of archival vinyl comps last year, the band is back in full swing with all five original members bringing the new single to life.

From the geographical conceptualism of Sufjan Stevens to the country stylings of Gillian Welch to the slapstick of Beck, the alt-pop songwriter shares 12 songs that helped shape her new LP.

The upbeat track lands ahead of their debut EP, out later this year via Grand Jury.

The animated clip arrives on the verge of the trio embarking on the fall leg of their tour in support of their debut LP the record.

The power-pop songwriter’s latest “series of fictions” features members of XTC, The Soft Boys, and Elf Power.

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.