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

The veteran emcee discusses his new LP Samurai and finding joy in music again after achieving all of his industry goals nearly two decades ago.

The duo’s new album will arrive on August 23 via Mom+Pop.

The song pays tribute to a notorious interstate.

The new project will arrive on August 2 via Sumney’s own Tuntum label.

The Brooklyn group’s third album will arrive on August 16.

The new album, which was co-produced by Phoebe Bridgers, will arrive on September 27 via ANTI-.

The Brooklyn trio’s fifth album will arrive in October via Rostrum Records/Cantora Records.

The clip was helmed by first-time director Christina Marie Karr.

Slim Shady’s new album will arrive on July 12.

Lukas Frank’s new album, which features orchestral arrangements from Travis Warner, is out now.

The DJ and producer’s new album will arrive October 18 via Ninja Tune.

The run will begin on September 19 in New Orleans.

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.