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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Will Schube

billy woods, ELUCID, Kenny Segal, They Hate Change, and more make appearances on Lindsay Powell’s latest release, out now via Backwoodz Studioz.

The band’s self-titled third album will arrive on October 27.

Youngs also walks us through each track on the project, which officially drops tomorrow via Yep Roc.

The track was produced by Gorillaz’s Remi Kabaka Jr.

The 30th anniversary reissue of Last Splash arrives this Friday via 4AD.

Her forthcoming tour will kick off on October 17 in Washington DC.

Natalie Mering’s tour will continue on September 27 in San Francisco.

The duo’s second album this year will be released on November 17 via True Panther Sounds.

The track arrives via Crumb Records.

Other stars with items to bid on include the cast of Bob’s Burgers, Lena Dunham, Bob Odenkirk and David Cross, Natasha Lyonne, Spike Jonze, John Lithgow, and “Weird Al.”

Out November 10, the album features billy woods, Hanni El Khatib, and more.

With this LP of lovesick twangers, the art-pop-architect-turned-country-balladeer sounds deeply interested in untangling the nuances and geometry of relationships.

The supergroup’s debut album Los Angeles will arrive on November 3.

Big Thief
The new track, along with A-side “Vampire Empire,” will be released as a physical 7-inch on October 20 via 4AD.

Lætitia Tamko’s third LP Sorry I Haven’t Called is out this Friday via Nonesuch Records.

Chan Marshall shares her takes on “Ballad of a Thin Man” and “She Belongs to Me” ahead of the November 10 release of Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert.

The New York-based artist’s new album H.T. III is out on September 20 via POW Recordings.

The London-based songwriter’s record is out now via Daptone.

The North Carolina–based songwriter discusses his new LP The King, which shapes old demos into a cohesive narrative singularly soundtracked by guitar.

Ahead of the release of his solo debut this Friday, the drummer and composer shares 11 tracks—within the realm of jazz and beyond—that inspired him.