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

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.

Molly Tuttle, So Long Little Miss Sunshine
Once again demonstrating her command of genre and lineage, the bluegrass songwriter’s turn toward pop is less a rejection of her roots than an expansion of her worldview.
Will Schube

Yachty performs “drive ME crazy!” and is joined by Fousheé on “pRETTY,” while Sudan Archives brings “Selfish Soul” to the Moody Theater stage.

Assisted by features from MIKE and Vince Staples and some of The Alchemist’s dankest, most blunted beats, the West Coast rapper’s formula here is simple but flawlessly executed.

The track was co-produced by Polachek, Cecile Believe, and Danny L Harle.

The lead single features backing vocals from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Nancy Whang.

The “absurd” song “about bugs” arrives with a video starring the collaborators along with Fred Armisen.

The multi-instrumentalist and Dawn Richard collaborator’s new album will arrive on November 17 via Cascine.

The solo project of Local Natives’ Kelcey Ayer will release SLSL: Naked, a collection mostly comprised of stripped-back versions of his own songs, on November 15.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter’s eighth record is set to arrive February 9 via 4AD.

The new album from the Detroit rap icon will arrive on November 17 via Warp Records.

The duo’s follow-up to the LP released earlier this year will arrive on December 1 via Rhymesayers.

The two Ben Gibbard–led groups’ co-headlining tour will wrap up on October 17 at the Hollywood Bowl.

Previous episodes of the series have featured other Random Access Memories collaborators including Panda Bear and DJ Falcon.

photo by David Iskra
The original version of the track was featured on the band’s recent Alpha Zulu LP.

Zach Condon’s new album Hadsel will arrive on November 10.

The new project will arrive on January 26 via Mom+Pop.

The trailer for the new film lands alongside expanded tour dates through 2024.

The track arrives shortly after a deluxe edition of the recently released MICHAEL LP.

In a brief Q&A, Will Miller shares how the new track fits into his forthcoming self-titled album, which arrives November 3 via International Anthem.

The Brooklyn-based trio’s second album is out now via Karma Chief/Colemine.

Proceeds from the track will pay the legal fees of people in Fjord Seyðisfjörður who are protesting the new fish farm in their area.