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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Will Schube

Mike Gordon will be playing in the UK, Europe, and Australia this fall and winter.

The track’s music video was animated by Quelle Chris.

Ahead of their tour with Fontaines D.C., the London-based rockers share an eerie interpolation of Tony Basil’s “Hey Mickey.”

After teasing the project with a mysterious visual yesterday, the rapper shares that his new album will arrive on October 28.

The Chicago trio’s tour kicks off this week in Canada.

Co-produced with Kenny Segal, Lower is out January 24 via Thirty Tigers.

The Animal Collective member’s latest solo record will arrive February 28 via Domino.

The producer known for his work with Danny Brown, Sudan Archives, and Open Mike Eagle shares how the OSTs from Uncut Gems, Blade Runner, and more helped shape his new solo album.

His new LP Mahashmashana will arrive on November 22 via Sub Pop.

The Yellowjackets actress walks us through the five tracks that make up her art-pop musical debut.

The capital-letter resisting artist will share her new album liminal space on November 1 via AWAL.

The debut album from Black Midi’s ringleader feels stripped of the serious context from which its sound would normally exist—yet it mostly works due to how fully he commits to the bit.

The band’s first album in 16 years will arrive on November 1.

MJ Lenderman, Fleet Foxes, and Sylvan Esso are among the other artists featured on the 135-song Cardinals at the Window, with all proceeds benefitting Hurricane Helene relief.

The forthcoming physical edition of the expanded album will come with a bonus 7-inch.

A video for the track arrives ahead of an unannounced 2025 full-length LP.

The new edition is set to arrive on November 15 via Rhymesayers.

The track follows August’s “Garmonbozia.”

The expanded version of the album will arrive on November 1.

The alt-R&B songwriter shares how healing, going indie, and Sufjan Stevens helped shape his third album, Zinc..