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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Will Schube

Both tracks will appear on Chaz Bear’s Hole Erth, which is set to arrive on September 6 via Dead Oceans.

The Armand Hammer member’s new album will arrive on October 11 via Fat Possum.

The track originally appeared on the Japanese edition of the Big Thief vocalist’s LP from earlier this year.

The Charlotte emcee and MAVI collaborator walks us through the freestyles and narrative-driven opuses of his latest project.

The conceptual new project from Yoni Wolf is out now via Waterlines.

His new LP, Album of the Year #1 Funkateer, will arrive on October 25.

The LP features Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, and Buzzy Lee.

The epic, eight-minute “Greyhound” lands ahead of the band’s self-titled record, which is set to be released on September 13.

Sophie Allison’s sixth album will arrive on October 25 via Loma Vista.

Lindsey Jordan recorded the song for I Saw the TV Glow.

Greatish Hits will arrive on August 16 via Sub Pop.

No Name has been randomly appearing in shoppers’ bags at Third Man Records over the past week.

The producer’s new album will arrive on September 20 via Young.

The song marks the songwriter’s first new recording in seven years.

The duo’s newly announced album Planet Pearl will arrive via Stones Throw on September 20.

Luke Steele and Nick Littlemore share how their first album in eight years is a celebration of the project’s history—and an optimistic look at their future.

The Canadian art-punk collective talk balancing “juvenile delinquency with a sense of mature introspection” on their third record, out now via Jagjaguwar.

The new project from Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring and Icky Reels will arrive on October 16.

The event is scheduled for July 26 in the East Village.

The track is set to be featured on Maia’s soon-to-be-announced third album.