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

Momma, Welcome to My Blue Sky
The Brooklyn quartet furthers their liberated bless-this-mess energy with the soft, cheeky smile of dream pop to provide a go-to soundtrack for driving on the highway with windows down.

Valerie June, Owls, Omens, and Oracles
The Tennessean country-soul songwriter’s latest finds her sounding comfortable in her own skin, offering what may be the purest distillation yet of her strange charm and dogged positivity.

Röyksopp, True Electric
With the help of guest vocalists including Robyn, Fever Ray, and Alison Goldfrapp, these clubby studio versions of the Norwegian duo’s recent live set push them further into the flame.
Will Schube

Chaz Bear discusses how his eighth album embraces all of his various eras—including high school and fatherhood.

Waiting for a Sign drops tomorrow via Dangerbird.

The song will be featured on a new version of Brat with a title I can’t muster up the energy to type out.

The cut is included on his latest album, No Name.

The project from the Injury Reserve rapper and rising producer arrives on September 27.

The Human Fear, the group’s sixth album, will arrive in early 2025 via Domino Records.

Sophie Allison’s sixth album Evergreen will arrive on October 25 via Loma Vista, with a massive North American tour to follow early in 2025.

Lively Premonition is set to arrive on October 18 via Grand Jury.

The event is set to take place the weekend of March 17 in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The NYC-based band will drop the project on September 20.

The new project will arrive on November 1 via Leaving Records.

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.