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
Danny Brown, Stardust
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
The Mountain Goats, Through the Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Whether or not it represents John Darnielle’s earnest Broadway aspirations, the indie-folk band’s 23rd LP stands out for its amped-up orchestration and sweeping grandeur.
The Mynabirds, It’s Okay to Go Back If You Keep Moving Forward
Laura Burhenn’s fifth album strips the project down to its piano core as she revisits old songs from her discography through a more introspective lens.
Will Schube
For Every Set of Eyes is set to arrive on August 23 via Holy Family.
The duo’s new project will arrive on October 18.
The group’s new LP—presumably for, inspired by, and/or about us—will be released on September 20 via Psychic Hotline.
The group’s new album is set to arrive in October via Epitaph.
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.
