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

Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green
Arriving after her longest gap between solo records, Case’s eighth LP is heavy with atmospheric details and new perspective; it wonders yet never wanders.

Wednesday, Bleeds
The Asheville band’s latest set of contemporary Southern-gothic tales thrives on hyper-specific lyrical details as sweet sentimentality disarmingly gives way to visceral walls of sound.

Automatic, Is It Now?
On their polished, hopeful third album, the LA synthpop trio increases the empty sonic space as they move away from the cluttered, rough edges of lo-fi punk.
Will Schube

Once Upon a Time. . . in Shropshire, the new album from the Poor Things composer, will be released on October 10.

A previously unreleased version of “I Feel Just Like a Child” is out now.

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.