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

Die Spitz, Something to Consume
With their Will Yip–produced debut, the Austin punk quartet has something to say about postmodern society in 11 metal-fusion tracks ripe with political turmoil and skatepark angst.

Shame, Cutthroat
The UK rockers don’t mince words on their fourth studio album, pairing their infectious proto-punk grooves with nakedly hedonistic lyrics.

Shallowater, God’s Gonna Give You a Million Dollars
The Houston “dirtgaze” trio ruminate on our intolerable times with some of the quietest and slowest music—as well as the most deafening, distortion-filled cacophony—you’ll hear in 2025.
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The song will appear in the Netflix movie “Project Power,” out this Friday.

There’s a new baseball cap in town, and it comes with a killer dance track.

2016. Kanye West and Kyle Mooney on SNL
The new Kanye continues to confound with this Tatooine-inspired concept.

Flashback to the summer of 1985 at an immersive beachside pop-up.

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The band will release new album “Guy Walks Into a Bar…” in July.

The fortieth anniversary of “Unknown Pleasures” launches a new film series.

Thoroughly modern indie-pop music for Generation Z and beyond.

The psychedelic clip is a thrilling showcase of styles and references.

Ferris Wheel / Coachella 2015 Weekend 1 / photo by Max Sweeney
It’s time to start making plans for the desert trek next year.

The D.C. band follow “The Seduction of Kansas” with a remake of the 1988 Danzig track.

Billie Eilish / photo by Adrian Santos
The anti-pop hitmaker takes a spin on the dark disco dance floor.

Originally shared last month, the dance-happy track is the third single from new album “Erotic Reruns.”

Jhené Aiko at Camp Flog Gnaw / photo by Rozette Rago
Claude VonStroke and company are ready to party hard in Modesto, CA, this fall.

Erykah Badu at Eaux Claires / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The recording was originally crafted as a 7″ for Record Store Day 2019.

Lykke Li / Photo by Alix Spence
The Swedish singer’s single-day event has a new date and a revised lineup, including SOPHIE and Empress Of.

Richie Hawtin, Kaskade and Derrick Carter will join the San Diego beachfront fest.

It’s the first iPod Apple has produced since 2015.

The track conjures distant memories of Jane’s Addiction amidst the apocalyptic maelstrom.

The song has already racked up more than six million streams. Now we have the official music video.

It’s the last track on his debut album “Apollo XXI,” which is out this Friday.