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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Mike LeSuer

Night Beats’ Danny Lee Blackwell and ex-Los Bitchos instrumentalist Carolina Faruolo will reveal their collaborative LP October 28 via Suicide Squeeze.

The Austin psych-rock collective’s double album Wilderness of Mirrors arrives September 16 via Partisan.

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.