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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Will Schube

Julien Baker boygenius at MSG credit Skylar Watkins
The boygenius member and solo artist will be performing multiple nights in each city she visits.

Do not get Thom Yorke started.

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.