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

Mourning Ritual, Seb Alvarez’s debut solo LP of experimental metal, is out October 14.

The experimental post-rock duo’s new album GOING drops October 7.

Mt. Surreal, the Swiss group’s first album in nearly a decade, arrives this Friday via Exploding in Sound.

The single arrives ahead of Kristin Slipp and Cole Kamen-Green’s debut album, expected out next year.

And in the Darkness, Hearts Glow will arrive November 18 via Sub Pop.

The doomy single arrives ahead of the Fog mastermind’s The Show Original Soundtrack LP, dropping October 7 via Lex Records.

Alexander Rieth takes us track by track through the Arizona-based post-metal band’s sophomore album.

The first single from his RCA debut, “Jesus Freak Lighter,” is now streaming.

The day before Linkous would’ve turned 60, the duo’s cover arrives ahead of their latest album You’ve Got Love (But It Even Tears You Apart).

Arriving October 21, Tristen Colby’s new EP Adore Me was mixed by JEFF the Brotherhood’s Jake Orall.

Tickets go on sale this Friday for the set of North American dates kicking off mid-November.

The wrestling-themed Exploding in Sound signees will release Hell in a Cell on October 21.

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“Cement” is the first taste of the Hooded Fang vocalist’s latest solo project, out October 28 via Telephone Explosion.

The Portland-based power-pop prodigy breaks down each song on his debut for Lame-O Records.

Frahm’s piano-free new LP Music for Animals arrives September 23 via LEITER.

“To stay on tour would symbolize I was either defending or ignoring harm caused by Win Butler and to leave would imply I’m the judge and jury.”

Arriving with a music video, the track precedes the Walter Schreifels–produced project’s
October 14 release via Grand Jury.

The recent tourmates collaborate on a new track as they gear up for another set of North American dates.

Currently on tour with Pianos Become the Teeth, the Baltimore rockers set a January 2023 release date for their debut LP.

The LA-based songwriter’s album Centrifics arrives September 16 via Fire Records.