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

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.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Will Schube

L’Orange’s psych-leaning beats offer the perfect playground for Ortiz to remind listeners he’s one of the best bar-for-bar emcees in the game on this reinterpretation of his 2021 LP Autograph.

The viral songwriter’s debut EP will arrive on September 29.

The new album will be released on October 27 via ATO Records.

The 17-date tour will hit arenas around the world.

The Cleveland emcee’s new album 66689 BLVD Prequel is out September 15 via Closed Sessions.

Along with releasing three new tracks, Jean will support Trippie Redd on his massive fall headlining arena tour.

Jonathan Demme’s film will be shown in a brand new 4K restoration helmed by A24.

The group is currently gearing up to embark upon its co-headlining tour with Ben Gibbard’s other band, The Postal Service.

Jonny Pierce’s new project is set to arrive on October 13 via ANTI- Records.

Jack Tatum’s project will share the new LP on October 27 via Captured Tracks.

The songwriter and former Ponytail guitarist shares a handful of eclectic reference points for his latest LP, out now via Hausu Mountain.

The label shares a demo of “Lowlife” ahead of the best-of collection’s October 6 release.

The band is gearing up for a European and UK tour.

The two-part EP is a heady concept record fueled by nostalgia which manages to sound at once indebted to its influences and like nothing else in rap.

These are Michael Gordon’s first tracks since 2020.

The bassist and songwriter’s newly announced album of the same name will arrive on October 6, courtesy of the artist’s own Wilkes Records.

The new LP from Jilian Medford will arrive on November 3 via Polyvinyl.

The playlist features songs from Big Thief, Brian Eno, HAIM, and more.

The producer took to Instagram to share that the record will be out this fall, as well as to tease an imminent single and upcoming live dates.

Natalie Mering’s In Holy Flux tour resumes on August 14 when she’ll support The Strokes at Red Rocks.