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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
A.D. Amorosi

The new reissue expands on the lyrical desolation, moody arrangements, and incendiary sonic vibes fueled by post-9/11 Brooklyn that define this debut.

The Irish art-pop icon and former Virgin Prunes bandleader talks God, dogs, and his new album, Ecce Homo.

The Puerto Rican vocalist and producer sounds primed for something romantically and rhythmically new yet soulfully nostalgic and warm on his latest collection of Latin pop.

Co-produced by his son Dhani with a deeply fluid overall bass line, this 50th anniversary collection provides the Beatle’s second solo record plenty more room to breathe.

This five-LP set spotlights how singular the slacker-rockers were as songwriters and offbeat vocal harmonists while putting their out-of-print catalog back into the world where it belongs.

Featuring a remastered sound and plenty of outtakes, demos, and live versions, this celebration of the iconic new wave band’s debut is equally notable for its flip-top box design and 80-page hardcover book.

Although curiously brief, this single-disc retrospective of the late songwriter and producer’s solo work is a solid overview of his innovation within a diverse set of sounds.

This anniversary collection filled with demos, practice bits, and live sessions demonstrates how full-blooded the band sounded even before stepping into the studio with Ric Ocasek.

This five-song EP offers a sense of where Steven Ellison’s futuristic agenda lies in 2024: between the breezy fusion-funk of the 1970s and the discoid, bouncy house music of the ’80s.

Whether tenderly crooned or roughly rapped, whether stoically alone or with a crew of features, the songs on the rapper’s eighth LP find him calling into question his past, present, and future.

The lyrical doom and gloom that matches the music’s slowed, metallic, ethereal ambience on the band’s first record in 16 years focuses very pointedly on true death.

Far from isolating Ferry from Roxy Music, this 50-year retrospective examines collaboration as the throughline between his elegant early material and his latter-day paeans to loneliness.

The illustrator explores the ketamine researcher’s “peculiar and distressing” fantasies in his latest psychedelic graphic novel, out now via Anthology Editions.

The indie-folk vets take maximalist swings on their eleventh record, with their swelling, sophisticated soundscapes often feeling muted by Conor Oberst’s sullen lyrics.

Sophie Allison’s fourth album digs deeper both poetically and personally as her dozy, conversational vocals and pop-grunge arrangements reach their clearest form.

Composed of the avant-garde songwriter’s first four solo records along with live recordings and other oddities, this collection is a wealth of weird ranging from pastoral freak-folk to circus noise.

The threadbare arrangements and starkly poetic sense of woe and wonder found on Justin Vernon’s new EP fit his back catalog like a wooly, moth-eaten sweater.

The rapper-producer discusses her debut mixtape for Capitol and TDE as her tour in support of it kicks off this week.

Like any great party, some of this remix album’s guest revelers are loud and boisterous, while others show up empty-handed.

Producer Kevin Martin’s debut for the metal-focused Relapse Records is a collection of instrumentals harkening back to his earliest work while always opting to go darker and heavier.