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
Odonis Odonis, Odonis Odonis
On their sixth LP, the industrial duo tones down the electronic tendencies of their past decade of output as they revisit to the gloomy post-punk and atmospheric shoegaze of their origins.
Sword II, Electric Hour
The Atlanta trio’s strange, radical second album of emotionally charged psych-gaze sees them honing a sound that feels striking and approachable, easy to grasp but also subtly experimental.
Danny Brown, Stardust
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
Will Schube
The songwriter is making good on an idea she recently floated on social media.
The Melbourne-based group discusses their studio debut Now Would Be a Good Time, which was five years in the making.
Headliners for the Japan-set fest this weekend also include Fred again.. and Vulfpeck.
In addition to The Black Keys frontman’s production, the track features vocals from the bluesman’s daughter, Christy Johnson.
The band’s Only Slightly Empty LP will be released on September 26.
Their new LP Bleed will arrive on September 19.
The LA-based songwriter will return to his hometown in Rhode Island for a Newport Folk Festival gig this Saturday.
The Brooklyn band’s new LP will arrive on September 19.
The project will be released on September 26 via Stones Throw.
Set for November 1 in San Diego, the single-day event will also feature Deafheaven, 2hollis, Glare, and, of course, Deftones themselves.
The follow-up to their 2020 collaboration will arrive on July 25.
First single “This Is the Killer Speaking” is out now.
The OST will arrive on September 19 via Interscope.
Ahead of the new album, Dev Hynes drops “Mind Loaded” and “Somewhere in Between”—the former featuring vocals from Caroline Polachek, Lorde, and Mustafa.
The iconic songwriter and former Led Zeppelin frontman’s new album will be released on September 26 via Nonesuch Records.
The songwriter’s third LP will arrive on October 17 via Stones Throw Records.
The punk icons will be joined by Lunachicks and CSS at The Belasco on October 3.
The new album from Mr. Talking Head himself will arrive on September 5 via Matador.
The singer’s The Brightest Silver Fish LP will arrive on September 12.
The band’s Stephen Malkmus–produced fifth LP will arrive on September 12 via Sub Pop.
