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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Will Schube

The iconic LA group’s latest will arrive on August 2 via Fat Possum.

News of the collection’s September 27 release via Transgressive and Future Classic arrives with a lead single featuring Kim Petras and BC Kingdom.

The acclaimed author proves his chops on the mic on the lo-fi, punky A-side to the trio’s forthcoming 7-inch.

Chris d’Eon takes us track by track through his latest surrealist electronic odyssey, out now via Hausu Mountain.

The Irish band’s fourth record will arrive on August 23 via XL Recordings.

The industrial goth band also recently released a KEXP session.

The duo’s new album is set to arrive on September 6.

Chaz Bear’s eighth album will arrive on September 6 via Dead Oceans.

The artist’s piano-focused sophomore album, Songs for Linnéa, will arrive on September 13 via his own label.

The Austin band’s debut album will arrive on July 12 via Acrophase Records.

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The eight-episode series highlighting a bizarre chapter in rock history is set to air on July 11.

Indoor Safari, the new project from the singer and his band Los Straitjackets, will arrive on September 13.

The Memphis rapper recruited his brother to co-direct the track’s moving music video.

Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge once again work as true embodiments of yin and yang to conjure immaculate vibes eight years after their collaborative debut.

Emcees Curly Castro and PremRock, along with the album’s producer Controller 7, walk us through the duo’s third full-length, out now via Backwoodz.

The abortion access benefit comp will arrive on June 21.

Sophie Allison has been performing the song on her stripped-back solo tour.

Sarah Tudzin will release her third album on August 23 via Hopeless Records.

The new record will arrive on September 20 via Neon Gold/Atlantic.

The duo’s new album, Cellophane Memories, is set to arrive on August 2 via Sacred Bones.