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

Kenney performs the single from her newly released album “Sucker’s Lunch” in Oakland.

The debut single from the LA-based songwriter arrives with a goofy—if not relatable—visual.

Michael Hansford’s latest single—written immediately post-“Touchstone”—will be his last for some time.

The record is officially out tomorrow via Mama Bird Recording Co.

It’s the Brooklyn band’s second album, out soon via Good Eye Records.

Morimoto will set the stream live on his YouTube channel at 6 p.m. PST tonight.

James Wallace’s new record “The World Only Ends When You Die” drops October 23.

Jessica Dobson shares a self-animated lyric video for the single (which also includes guitar tabs).

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

They cite everything from Future to Rancid to Red House Painters as influences on their collaborative EP, out today.

The Chicago-based multi-instrumentalist shares fifteen songs he’s been jamming over the past few months.

The experimental offshoot of Local Natives turn their first album single into a guided meditation.

Baldi performs the “Black Hole Understands” singles outside Philly’s Please Touch Museum.

The Vancouver-based songwriter shares a playlist of inspirations for “Below the Salt” along with the Tennis-produced single.

Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack share some tracks that inspired their EP collaboration with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

In case you were wondering how will.i.am stacks up to Venetian Snares.

The National / photo by Molly Adams
The album, surprise-released today, features Dessner on eleven of its tracks.

With her new LP “mydata” out today, Dey lists off ten tracks that soothe her soul.

The songwriter’s Bad Vacation tour sees her play on St. Simon Island, Georgia.

The single arrives ahead of the D.C. band’s LP “Crystal,” out October 16.