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

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.

Skegss, Top Heavy
Clashing with expectations, the rowdy Australian duo dive into an older, deeper, more refined sound with this EP that positions them as stronger musicians and storytellers.

Mister Romantic, What’s Not to Love?
John C. Reilly’s latest role as a lonely vaudevillian singer of Great American Songbook standards sees him unwrap each melody and lyric without irony or snarky dispatch.
Will Schube

Other artists to be featured on American Football (Covers) include Iron & Wine, Blondshell, and Manchester Orchestra.

The producer’s new LP Low End Love Songs is set to arrive tomorrow via Colemine Records.

The track will be featured on the LA-based songwriter’s forthcoming Dark Wanderer and the Bounty Heart LP.

The sequel to 2020’s Live Drugs will arrive September 13.

Other contributors to the project include Moses Sumney, Sam Smith, Lyra Pramuk, and Beverly Glenn-Copeland.

The new edition of the band’s debut LP will arrive on November 15, followed by live dates in NYC, LA, and London.

The album will arrive on November 1 via Phil Elverum’s own label.

The updated album set for release on October 4 will include a nine-track bonus disc.

The French pop icon opened and closed the ceremony.

The track was recorded at Show Me the Body’s Corpus Studios.

The group met Russell Mael at their Fonda show earlier this month.

Proceeds from the limited October 1 release will go to Brian Eno’s climate charity EarthPercent.

The LA producer’s new album Eternal Reverie will arrive on November 22.

The self-titled album will arrive on September 27 via Future Classic and Transgressive.

The producer’s new album Dotr will arrive on October 18 via Ninja Tune.

Nobody Loves You More will arrive on November 22 via 4AD.

Teri Bracken’s new album Not Done Yet will arrive on October 25.

The LA-based artist’s new album will arrive September 27 via Leaving Records.

The Gallaghers will be hitting the UK and Ireland in July and August of next year.

The German production group’s new album German Engineering Zwei is out on November 15.