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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Mike LeSuer

The animation team for Bob’s Burgers—for which Maxwell composes the soundtrack—brings the latest single from Nothingland to life.

The group led by Thurston Moore Guitar Ensemble member Jen Chochinov will release their debut album Once Around this Friday via Moore’s Daydream Library Series.

Inside Voice(s): Side A, Devin Hobdy and Corey Smith-West’s follow-up to their 2021 debut album, is out now via MNRK Music Group.

A couch-centric (and G-rated) visual for the track arrives ahead of Andrew Choi’s fifth album Ten Modern American Work Songs, out October 25 via Don Giovanni.

With the epic Megalopolis inviting superlatives for the already-storied director, we look back on a few movies which—either by Coppola’s account or ours—preceded its likely autobiographical nature.

Comedian Kareem Rahma and his band all share how NYC, rote repetition, and the dumb philosophical parasites encountered in everyday life all helped shape their first-ever project together.

The Californian songwriter and producer shares the latest single from his upcoming collaborative album with the cumbia band, Wake the Dead.

The West Coast punks’ fourth album lands five years after 2019’s Almost Free.

Evan Shornstein pairs the release of his new LP Windswept with further listening “for cooling and circulating air.”

The German indie-pop group shares the latest in a string of singles released through their new label, Nettwerk Music Group.

Ahead of her debut solo EP Talk a Blue Streak, Hannah Liuzzo shares her guestlist for the first soirée she throws when she finally gets that house in the Hollywood Hills.

The Savannah-based rockers recently followed up their self-titled debut album with a Steve Albini–produced EP of the same title.

Before releasing their sophomore album this Friday, the London trio shares how Warpaint, Scott Walker, Destiny’s Child, and more helped shape their vision.

Six years after disbanding, the NYC noise-rockers reunite to discuss their newly reissued debut album Eighteen Hours of Static, community, and their unique legacy.

The new single featuring The Head and the Heart’s Jonathan Russell lands ahead of the band’s guest-heavy new album titled Winged Horse, which drops in January.

Former NFL player Antone Exum Jr. will release his new album hole on October 25, preceded by the sparse lead single.

Chicago-based songwriter Kristyn Chapman will release her introductory EP Morpho Season on November 15 via Hit the North Records.

The duo of Heather Goldin and Emma Jenney will return in October with Girl Cried Wolf, their first full-length in nearly a decade.

With the the London dance-punk group’s debut album out now, keyboardist Chris Hughes offer up some TMI commentary on what music gets their tails wagging, so to speak.

The Essex duo’s debut album What a Life arrives this Friday via the Fat Wreck imprint Bottles to the Ground.