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

$uicideboy$, 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.

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.
Mike LeSuer

The third and final pre-album single from “Big Blue” is full of grungy longing.

Along with the news, the eclectic label offers up an early stream of Robedoor’s new record, “Negative Legacy.”

The power pop songwriter lives every artist’s dream and ranks ten of his stunning “Born Hot” self-portraits for us.

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The two-song pairing is the latest meditation on late capitalism from the Have a Nice Life side-project.

The folksy songwriter shares the first video from his podcast-released new album “Are You Feelin’ It.”

The title track to the genreless rapper’s latest LP plays on repeat to accommodate its lengthy visual.

The Phil Collins classic gets a spooky makeover for Dacus’s newly announced “2019” EP.

The reinvigorated Boston dance-punks look ahead on their latest single from their forthcoming “What Would the Odd Do?” EP.

The pulsing single is the third cut from their forthcoming Dais Records debut, “Private Life.”

The first official single from the two-day old album comes to life with a Johnny Jewel–directed video.

While touring LP “Braindrops,” the Australian band shares their secrets to being a rare innovative rock band in 2019.

The Portland-based synthwave group gives us something a bit more substantial to chew on as we anticipate “Dear Tommy.”

The “Ski” single comes to life with a lively black-and-white visual.

The fourth and final single precedes an October 4 release date for “Make Yourself at Home.”

Our Associate Editor’s favorite pre-released singles, album deep cuts, and tracks by unfairly obscure artists from the past few weeks.

The Irish noise-makers dig into the warped sounds of their experimental follow-up to 2015’s “Holding Hands with Jamie.”

The “Real Stories” track gets the ska treatment for Jeremy Hunter’s debut collection of covers.

Reggie Watts joins the band for a synthed-out rendition of “Daddi.”

The National / photo by Molly Adams
The vintage analog recordings taken from a pair of the band’s 2018 sets at the Greek Theatre will be released November 29.

The Chicago songwriter and Ratboys guitarist teases his second solo album with a breezy power-pop jam.