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

Röyksopp, True Electric
With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.

Backxwash, Only Dust Remains
The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless.

Bon Iver, SABLE, fABLE
Following the story of a budding romance that helps heal Justin Vernon’s past relationship wounds, the LP is a slick and polished expansion upon the EP he released last fall.
Mike LeSuer

The latest album from the project fronted by Avery Mandeville, Now That’s What I Call Little Hag, is out August 23 on Bar/None Records.

The Indianapolis emcee’s new album NEPHEW will arrive September 20 via Joyful Noise offshoot Church of Noise Records.

Surf Curse’s Nick Rattigan will release his latest solo record, East My Love, on October 11 via Secretly Canadian.

The Montreal quartet’s debut album Some Kind of Heaven arrives September 6 via Mint Records.

The Brooklyn trio’s new grungegaze LP Glassy star arrives October 18 via Mtn Laurel Recordings.

With the soundtrack out now on vinyl, the composer shares how each recording aims to reflect the movement on stage.

The Britney-meets-NIN track arrives with a Blair Witch-meets-Midsommar visual ahead of the songwriter’s latest album, out October 4 via Get Better Records.

Following her 2021 EP Tether, the Dallas-based gothic-rock songwriter’s debut LP officially drops tomorrow.

The Oakland-based synth-punk ensemble’s second album Pass the Loofah will arrive on October 25 via Trouble in Mind.

From dance and film to superstition and the uncanny, the Austin-based quartet share the ideas that fueled their new dance-punk LP.

The Boston dream-pop collective’s latest album A Time for Everything arrives September 13 via Better Company Records.

Dan Knishkowy reveals that his new album of the same name will arrive September 27 via Ruination Records.

Retitled “Out in the Country,” the track arrives with a visual of Rose and Video Age’s Ross Farbe performing live in Nashville.

The LP released under the moniker Michael & the Mighty Midnight Revival is out now as a free download.

Waiting on Time to Fly, John Klein’s third album under the slacker-folk moniker, is out November 15 via Born Losers.

Dylan Balliett’s follow-up to last August’s Bury the Dead arrives October 4.

The Seattle-based shoegazers are also sharing that their debut album I Wish I Was a Rat will be out October 18 via Danger Collective.

High Roller, the debut solo record from the Finom co-leader, arrives August 30 via Ruination Records.

Nigerian musician and visual artist Zina Saro-Wiwa sees apocalypse as a celebration of the end of a cycle in the video for the new track.

The LA-based trio shares how Duster, SASAMI, SOPHIE, and more influenced the dream-pop sound of their debut EP.