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

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.

Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.
Mike LeSuer

The songwriter shares another early look at her unannounced album slated for 2023.

The Atlanta-based songwriter’s EP Checking for Daggers arrives October 21.

The Vancouver-based experimental rockers’ new album Circuitous arrives October 28 via Flemish Eye.

The ex-Chromatics vocalist’s five-song project is out now.

Following the release of their album Happy Now, the rock trio shares 26 tracks by their favorite artists from their local Brooklyn scene.

The piercing-noise title track from the Seattle hardcore group’s forthcoming album arrives with a video inspired by Stan Brakhage.

“Done and Dead” serves as the A-side to a new 7-inch arriving this Friday via Good Eye Records.

With their latest LP The Dance out now, Nico Schneit shares 12 tracks that inspired its upbeat energy.

Following the release of her debut EP, Anna Schwab reworks the 2019 bedroom-pop single.

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

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.