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

Jenny Hval, Iris Silver Mist
The Norwegian art-pop songwriter’s seventh album aims to incorporate senses beyond sound to more completely immerse the listener (and smeller) into her constructed domestic space.

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.
Mike LeSuer

The new collection of folk-rock “self-help hymns” arrives August 25 via Orindal Records.

Co-directed by her husband Ron Gallo, the visual arrives ahead of Chiara D’Anzieri’s first English-language LP Imported.

The title track from the guest-heavy Los Angeles arrives today with LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy on vocals.

History Books is out October 27 via the band’s own Thirty Tigers imprint Rich Mahogany Recordings.

Before taking the stage in San Diego the weekend of August 5, Sabrina Teitelbaum shares 11 tracks she’s been jamming on tour.

Nicole Rodriguez shares an unreleased track ahead of upcoming live dates with Miss Grit, A.O. Gerber, and Kacy & Clayton.

And That’s Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs, Nick Thorburn’s ninth album with the project, is out August 25.

The NYC indie-rock troupe’s EP Sundress Songs drops September 22.

The Memphis-based songwriter’s new EP Loose Screw will arrive August 11.

“Bioluminescence” arrives ahead of the new LP, dropping some time this fall via Mom+Pop Music.

The track is the eighth monthly release from Gabby Sword, Gabby Smith’s second album under the new moniker arriving in December.

Shimmy-Disc is re-releasing the 1974 experimental album from the late composer on vinyl with 20 minutes of unreleased music included with its digital component.

The follow-up release to Jeremy Haywood-Smith’s Captured Tracks debut Slingshot is out August 11.

Chloe Drallos also announces a North American tour in support of Earthly Delights, her new album out August 11 via Young Heavy Souls.

Their new EP Din is out now via Mark Ronson’s label Zelig Music.

The LA psych-punks’ new LP Data Doom lands September 1 via Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

The loose single follows last September’s Juvenilia EP.

The score for the film spotlighting the civil rights–era Black power group arrives August 18 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co and Khannibalism.

Christian Zucconi and Hannah Hooper take us track by track through their first album for Glassnote Records, out now.

With two EPs out today—one a reissue and one featuring original material—via their new label home of Matador Records, the Chicago rockers share some of their favorite bite-sized jams.