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

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.
Mike LeSuer

The Love That’s Ours arrives September 30 via Project Melody Music.

Co-directed by comedians Patti Harrison and Alan Resnick, the video arrives ahead of Cry Sugar’s Friday release.

The duo’s new album Closure arrives September 30 via Fuzz Club.

The experimental duo’s seventh album—and first in a decade—arrives September 16.

Following a string of singles, the LA-based three-piece surprise-released their third album earlier this week.

The Atlanta-based punks will release the project September 30 via Famous Class Records.

Samira Winter and Harriette Pilbeam take on Hollywood in the video for the second track released ahead of What Kind of Blue Are You?.

Inspired by the band’s new track “Swallow,” Christine Goodwyne shares 10 more songs that use the vocal distortion tool to heighten their emotional pull.

The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The sequel to Richie Follin’s 2011 covers EP officially drops tomorrow via CGR.

The Toronto-based duo share their third single since releasing their Better Daughter EP in 2020.

Adam Turla breaks down each song on the band’s eighth album, out now.

The Virginia rapper’s album officially drops via Quiet Year tomorrow.

The playlist provides an antidote to the trio’s chaotic new album Fairy Rust, arriving this Friday via Fire Talk.

The LA-based four-piece boasting members of FIDLAR and Together Pangea will release their Human Nature EP on August 12.

The Vermont trio’s album arrives October 7 via Captured Tracks, with dates opening for Viagra Boys and Shame to follow.

With their debut album God’s Country dropping this week, the OKC noise-rock band takes us deeper into their unsettling world.

Neil Berthier’s new album At Some Point You Stop arrives this Friday.

The latest single from the West Coast trio’s forthcoming album Truthtelling arrives with a Chloe Corley remix.

The single and video arrive ahead of the punks’ first album in a decade, out August 26 via Red Scare.