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

Grails, Miracle Music
Regaining the fast momentum with which they released their early material, the instrumental post-rockers’ ninth LP is defined by a meditative feel coursing through the songs’ proverbial veins.

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.
Will Schube

The tribute album A Song For Leon is out September 8 via Primary Wave Music.

Produced by Cate Le Bon, the LP marks their first work with an outside collaborator since 2007’s Sky Blue Sky.

The LA-based producer’s new album Gravity will arrive on September 8 via Friends of Friends.

Inspired in part by heartbreak and a move from Ontario to LA, the alt-R&B artist’s fourth album is out now via Hyperdub.

The book will be released on Questlove’s new Macmillan imprint, AUWA Books.

Sophie Allison is playing at Forest Hills Stadium in New York tonight with Maggie Rogers.

The NYC-based songwriter’s fourth album uses little moments of heartbreak for propulsion, with this momentum giving the album its sturdy bones.

The band’s follow-up to last year’s Time Skiffs will arrive on September 29 via Domino Records.

The band’s new album Mommy will arrive on August 25.

“The Rabbi” and “The Swan” arrive less than a week after the band’s new LP.

The album, which features Junglepussy, Soul Glo vocalist Pierce Jordan, Moor Mother, and more, is out September 29.

The band has announced release events for the singles in NYC and LA featuring exclusive merch pop-ups at both.

Youngs’ new LP Avalanche will arrive on September 22 via Yep Roc Records.

Her solo run kicks off September 4 in Washington, D.C.

Sacred Bones’ era-spanning archival collection Journey to the Moon and Beyond highlights the joy of creation as the throughline in the synth pioneer’s career.

Lætitia Tamko’s new album Sorry I Haven’t Called is out September 15 via Nonesuch Records.

The visual and track pay homage to a dearly departed turtle.

Sarah Tuzdin is also set to open for boygenius on their forthcoming tour.

The single will appear alongside another new track, “Born For Loving You,” on a 7-inch dropping October 20 via 4AD.

Young’s performance at the famed 500-capacity venue is set for September 20 as a part of a series of Roxy50 honors and events this fall.