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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
Mike LeSuer

Expect “West Coast vs. Wessex” out July 31.

The playlist arrives along with the Nashville songwriter’s “The Greatest Part,” out today via Captured Tracks.

The solo project of Mineral’s Chris Simpson celebrates the release of “Music for Looking Animals” today.

The Toronto band’s fourth album drops August 7 via Mint Records.

Their self-titled will drop July 10 via Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire.

The SF festival will make up for lost time with Tyler, the Creator, The 1975, and J Balvin already locked in.

Conor Oberst’s band performed their new song “Mariana Trench” from their newly announced album.

Mia Berrin threw together a playlist of songs that helped her own her queer identity.

The reflection on intrusive thoughts is the first single to precede the LP, out August 28.

The trio share fifteen tracks that inspire their vibrant take on punk.

All proceeds from the single benefit the Black Lives Matter movement.

It’s the second single from their debut album, American Advertisement, out July 10.

The R&B songwriter’s new record includes verses from Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, and many more.

Interpol’s Paul Banks, The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, and Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman give us the details on their first LP together.

The South African rapper delivers an intense electro-pop single with a pretty straightforward message.

The Hawaii-born songwriter shares the latest from his debut EP, “Who Is Dovey?”

The Chicago songwriter will unveil the rest of “All That Has Come Apart / Once Did Not Exist” two songs at a time.

Chris Browder and Robin Dove share the latest from “Big Bad,” their first album in seven years.

The single arrives ahead of DVG’s “Breakthrough” EP, arriving this Friday via Suicide Squeeze.

The OutKast rapper shares thirteen new designs available for the next three days.