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
The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Will Schube
A new LP from the Ruination Records artist is set to arrive in 2026.
The Yeasayer co-founder shares how everyone from Bill Withers to Charlotte Adigéry inspired his latest solo album.
The singer’s fifth LP will drop on October 10.
Don’t worry, she won’t be quitting her day job.
The reissue featuring six bonus tracks will arrive on October 17.
The band is celebrating 10 years of their debut album Body War in October.
The emcee and producer share how Raekwon, French boom-bap, “Dopesmoker,” and more helped inspire their debut collaboration, out now via Backwoodz Studioz.
The visual for the Chromakopia track features Tyler alongside Nia Long, Ayo Edebiri, Willow Smith, and more.
The title track will drop tomorrow ahead of the release of her sixth LP on October 31.
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.
