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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Will Schube

The duo’s album is finally seeing the light of day with an August 25 release via Lex Records.

The Chicago post-hardcore icons’ run of dates kicks off August 9 in Indianapolis with Upper Wilds.

The project will arrive on October 20 via Ninja Tune/Counter Records.

billy woods and ELUCID’s new album We Buy Diabetic Test Strips is out on September 29 via Fat Possum Records.

The limited-edition release arrives ahead of Thundercat’s In Yo Girl’s City tour.

The band’s new album The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons is out on August 11.

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.