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

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.
Mike LeSuer

Formerly recording as Halfnoise, the Paramore drummer’s first album under his own name is out now via Congrats Records.

The track arrives with the news that Eli Goldberg’s sixth LP El Prado will drop on October 3 via Nettwerk.

The Berlin-based Italian producer discusses the personal nature of “Oblivion Step,” the latest single from his collab-heavy industrial LP Absurd Matter 2.

Following last year’s Connection EP, Allyson Camitta’s latest track was mixed by Fcukers’ co-producer Ivan Berko.

The Oklahoma chamber-folk band are gearing up to release their fifth album Volume V on October 10 via PIAS.

The Seattle-based songwriter’s second album, I Hope We Can Still Be Friends, will arrive on August 22 via Saddle Creek.

Former It Looks Sad. member Lamont Brown will self-release his second LP on August 22.

Former Feeble Little Horse member Ryan Walchonski enlisted members of Snail Mail and Tosser for these nine tracks, out now.

The single arrives ahead of the rapper’s NYC dates with Tyler, the Creator next week at Madison Square Garden and Barclays Center.

Inspired by Aaron Bushnell and the Palestinian liberation movement, the track lands ahead of the artist’s third album, Inertia, out September 5 via XX Records.

The band’s cover of Johnny Cash’s “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” was used in a border patrol propaganda video posted to Instagram earlier this week.

The project founded by emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn are dropping their sophomore LP this week via Joyful Noise.

The single arrives ahead of the latest LP from former Flaming Lips member Jake Ingalls and Eric Martin, Lunar Manor.

The Austin-based noise-rock group shares their second single since signing with TODO Records following the release of last year’s self-titled debut.

The single announces the trio’s third album Feels Like Hell, out October 10 via Don Giovanni.

It’s the title track from the LA-based songwriter’s first LP since 2019’s Pity Boy, out this Friday via Get Better Records.

The Michigan gloom-and-doomgazers’ third LP expands the already-vast scope of their songs to incorporate elements that almost feel transparently autobiographical.

Aryan Ashtiani shares how eBay artifacts and vintage cars (well, old cars) inspired his vision on his newly released second album.

The Chicago-based musicians met up with Semones and her band for the first time to perform the track they’re featured on from the duo’s new album Horizon.

Australian producer Teneil Throssell shares a few songs by queer artists in the electronic/dance/DJ space she’s had on repeat over the past month.