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

The Flaming Lips at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA. August 5, 2023. Photo by David Iskra
Wayne Coyne’s band will be performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full at the Shovels & Rope–curated event next April in South Carolina.

The record will be pressed to limited edition gold vinyl when it’s released on December 8.

The band also announced a slew of North American, European, and UK tour dates.

The track’s video sees the band attending a speed-dating night at the fictional Bliss Bar.

The synth-pop band’s new album will arrive on January 26 via 4AD.

Siblings Jendayi and Gyasi Bonds pay homage to both Spike Lee and Brooklyn’s queer community in the track’s video.

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.