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 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.

It’s the title track from Jancy Rae’s forthcoming sophomore LP, arriving October 13 via WWNBB.

The Toronto synthpop group dance themselves clean in the gauzy video for the first track from the sequel to last year’s Formentera.