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

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.

Beach Bunny, Tunnel Vision
On their third album, Chicago’s grungey power-pop outfit neatly balances present-day anxieties with wistful nostalgia while sagely ruminating on existential struggle and broader social themes.

SUMAC & Moor Mother, The Film
Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.
Will Schube

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..

The LA-based alt-folk artist will share the new project on November 1.