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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Mike LeSuer

The Jersey City alt-R&B songwriter teams up with the Brooklyn electronic producer on the four-song Mutamelior, landing November 13 via EveryDejaVu.

The Norwegian indie rockers’ sophomore album Full Speed Anywhere Else arrives this Friday via Tiny Engines.

It’s the title track from the LA-based indie-pop duo’s debut album, arriving this Friday.

The Australian surf-punks duo’s third LP is out now via Loma Vista.

The recording lands ahead of a full spoken-word LP of Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry read by Lydia Lunch, Thurston Moore, Allen Ginsberg, and more—all with accompaniment by Kramer.

It’s the (sort of) title track from the noise-punk twin duo’s new EP, arriving November 8 via Three One G.

Scott Hermo Jr. shares how Beat Happening, Frankie Cosmos, Another Michael, and more helped shape his band’s first new record in nearly a decade.

Out November 29, Live at Permanent Records sees John Dwyer and Brigid Dawson revisiting their collaborations over the years at the titular LA record store.

The NYC-based songwriter’s guest-filled new album Middle Child Syndrome lands October 25 via Record Euphoria.

The Leeds duo will release their first album for Fire Talk Records, into a pretty room, on January 17.

The band shares how learning to make stained glass and intensively studying soap films helped give their second album its unique edge.

The Miami art-rock quartet will release their second album, Standing Too Close to the Elephant in the Room, on October 18 via Dion Dia.

With the post-Smoosh project’s breakout EP Committed to the Crime turning 10 this week, Asy and Chloe Saavedra announce plans for its first-ever vinyl release.

The NYC-based experimental-folk songwriter shares how Björk’s “Cocoon” inspired the latest track from her new EP zen and hot.

Directed by Sex Week’s Pearl Amanda Dickson and Richard Orofino, the visual lands ahead of the NYC quartet’s debut album words from a wishing well.

Vocalist Bria Salmena pays homage to her heritage with scenes filmed in Rome and Bologna.

The LA-based songwriter’s third album features production from Jorge Elbrecht and Sarah Tudzin, and will be released January 10 on Lex Records.

The OKC noise-rockers share how spam calls, the third Die Hard movie, binging JRPGs, and more helped bring their second album to life.

Utah-based alt-folk songwriter Emma Hardyman’s second LP Dear Divine arrives October 25 via Joyful Noise.

The LA-based songwriter’s debut collection of hypnagogic jazz-pop is set to land November 22 via Mac’s Record Label.