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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Mike LeSuer

Denzel Curry
A shortened version of the track was released last week with an Omar Jones–directed visual.

The LA post-punks’ latest record Witness Marks arrives September 22 via God? Records, Ty Segall’s Drag City imprint.

The Austin/OKC-based noise rockers’ sophomore album (dream dump) will arrive September 22 via Born Yesterday Records.

No More Blue Skies, Andrya Ambro’s third album under the no-nonsense no-wave moniker, is out October 20 via No Gold.

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.