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

The London group’s fifth album will be released in October via Matador Records.

Compost Karaoke will arrive on September 12.

A vinyl edition of the recording—which features performances in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires, and Dublin between 2003 and 2009—will arrive in October.

The shop will arrive in LA on August 20 with merchandise, brand collaborations, and limited-edition items.

The Talking Heads frontman channels Led Zeppelin and Dirty Projectors on the song.

The BPM will drop on October 17 via Stones Throw.

The track follows the duo’s first single together, “Everything Designer,” from earlier this year.

The LA band’s latest LP will arrive on October 17 via Loma Vista.

Interior Live Oak will arrive on August 15.

The duo’s fourth LP will arrive on October 17.

All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade, the band’s first LP in six years, will arrive on October 17.

The band’s fourth LP The Clearing will arrive on August 22.

Moments is set to arrive on September 5.

The clip stars the National singer alongside his brother Tom.

The band’s first album for Run for Cover will arrive on October 3.

The Paramore singer dropped 17 new singles last week.

Dana Foote’s second LP under the moniker will arrive on August 22.

Her third album A Matter of Time will be released on August 22 via AWAL.

Additionally including three more original tracks and a full score from IDLES, the soundtrack will be available digitally on August 29 via Protozoa and Partisan Records.

The four-track collection arrives ahead of a set of European tour dates.