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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Mike LeSuer

The songwriters share a video of their cover, which they filmed in Brooklyn.

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones bassist has teamed up with the New Orleans DIY group for an intergenerational ska-punk split, out this Friday via Bad Time Records.

Atlanta-based songwriter David Mansfield leans into post-punk on his first single produced by The Vacant Lots’ Jared Artaud.

Pure Music, the shapeshifting group’s proper debut for Fire Talk Records, is out July 21.

Jacob Allen’s directorial debut comes paired with the latest track from his sophomore album, Holy Waters.

The LA-based songwriter’s debut album is in the works.

The Icelandic group’s first new material in seven years comes with a visual by Johan Renck, director of HBO’s Chernobyl.

Dave Maclean shares some of the tracks that inspired the UK project’s foray into house music on their new four-part LP.

Songwriter/harpist Rebecca Kitba Bryson El-Saleh’s self-titled debut arrives July 21 via Ruination Records.

From Le Tigre to The Cribs, Rakel Mjöll and Alice Go share 10 songs the London punks looked to when crafting their third LP.

The cult neo-psych group will release their first unheard material in a decade with the deluxe release out August 4.

The UK noise-punks’ new track is the latest to arrive from Suicide Squeeze’s Pinks & Purples digital singles series.

The London-based post-punk revivalists are currently on tour with Paramore.

Joe Casey breaks down the various themes and theses of the Detroit art-punks’ sixth full-length, out now.

Adam McIlwee discusses collaborating with Darcy Baylis, Ben Greenberg, and Zola Jesus as he breaks down each song on the new album, out now via Run for Cover.

It’s the second taste of Inner Smile, the forthcoming LP from the Swiss rockers.

The group’s fourth album is slated for release on September 1 via Wax Nine.

Ting Mong, the Cambodian-pop outfit’s first album in eight years, is out September 15.

Emi Night returns with their first new single in six years.

With his new LP Animals out now via Warp Records, the rapper and percussionist shares his favorite tracks by artists on the cutting edge of the jazz tradition.