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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

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.
Mike LeSuer

The track arrives with a pensive music video ahead of the duo’s debut album Light Moving Time, out October 28 via Double Double Whammy.

With her debut EP Juvenilia arriving this week, the experimental rapper shares 17 tracks she aligns with.

The track arrives ahead of the LA-based group’s upcoming fall tour with The Joy Formidable.

With the album out now via Saddle Creek, John Rossiter shares the books that helped shape all eight tracks.

Recorded back in March, the live video arrives in the wake of the band’s sophomore LP Vestli.

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.

Lee 001
“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.