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

Grails, Miracle Music
Regaining the fast momentum with which they released their early material, the instrumental post-rockers’ ninth LP is defined by a meditative feel coursing through the songs’ proverbial veins.

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.
Will Schube

The cut features backing vocals from Katy Kirby.

His debut album The New Sound will arrive on October 4 via Rough Trade.

The Office Culture member’s new album will arrive on November 1.

The song was one of many standout cuts from the pop star’s Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess.

The recording was credited to his late-’00s group with Kanye West and Pharrell, Child Rebel Soldier.

The late British rocker’s ashes will remain in Nottingham until next August.

The track was produced by Danger Mouse and SAULT’s Inflo.

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.