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

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.

Fleshwater, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
The Massachusetts grungegazers settle on their sound with their second LP: a balancing of frantic energy with moody heaviness and an overall tone of passionately charged emo splendor.
Will Schube

The NYC rapper’s tour spanning North America, Europe, and the UK will kick off in February.

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.