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

Cook Craig is teasing his latest release outside of his work with King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard and The Murlocs, with his Pipe-defy LP landing October 18 via p(doom).

Dylan Balliett shares how Mirah, Blaze Foley, Durutti Column, and more helped shape the sister album to last August’s Bury the Dead.

The slacker-punks’ first track for their new label Trash Casual arrives ahead of a pair of upcoming local dates playing alongside Gustaf, Godcaster, and more.

Wolfed, Heaven Schmitt’s debut EP for Bayonet Records, is out October 25.

The cult noise-pop group teases their upcoming US tour and reissue of their 2003 LP Cats of the Wild: Volume Two.

The American-primitivist guitarist picks 15 songs that helped shape her debut album for Nonesuch Records, ranging from Aoife O’Donovan to J Dilla.

The open-ended single lands ahead of Emma Danner’s upcoming self-titled album, arriving November 1 via Danger Collective.

The songwriter fills in the gaps in between (in betweeze?) each song on their latest collection of change-focused recordings, out now via Stones Throw.

Citing Tegan & Sara, Rilo Kiley, Andy Shauf, and more as inspiration, the LA duo’s debut album is out now via Dangerbird.

The Seattle band’s debut album Psychotic Spew is set to arrive October 11 via Youth Riot Records.

The LP will be reissued on vinyl later this fall, with a remastered digital version (along with a touched-up “Friendly Pressure” music video) available to stream now.

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.”