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

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.

Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override
On his epic triple album, the Wilco frontman displays the kind of resonant, rambling folk-rock he’s long been known for, both through personal missives and family-and-friends affairs.

KennyHoopla, conditions of an orphan//
His second EP of 2025 sees the artist lean into his writing capabilities over addictive indie-rock melodies to reflect on the resilience that’s carried him through the last few tumultuous years.
Kevin Crandall

His second EP of 2025 sees the artist lean into his writing capabilities over addictive indie-rock melodies to reflect on the resilience that’s carried him through the last few tumultuous years.

With her new MIDNIGHT EP out now, the producer tells us about her formative experiences at Low End Theory, her ideal slumber party, and more.

Following a hiatus from recording, this fourth LP is a journey through the beauty and messiness of relationships that have colored the past five years of Taylor’s musical hibernation.

The track will close out the Savannah-based alt-rap artist’s Buried Out Back EP, which drops in full tomorrow.

Leading with distortion and chaos, the Austin group’s debut is a 22-minute cataclysm of hardcore punk and harsh noise that distills the anti-capitalist ethos of their moniker.

The LA-based musician discusses getting weird on his latest project, art Pop * pop Art.

The LA-based artist’s most comprehensive foray into genre abolition yet is a whirlwind of artistic exploration that sees the songwriter coloring well outside of hip-hop’s lines.

Despite being incarcerated by the State of Ohio, the poet teamed up with the improvisational jazz artist for what is the first known live recording from a death row inmate.

The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Their debut collaboration stitches the poet/emcee’s potent oratory chops through the metal group’s free-form sounds to create an avant-garde epic concerning human rights, violence, and empire.

The Zambian-Canadian noise-rapper returns from a brief hiatus with an existentialist exploration of death, violence, and, ultimately, love, a textural letter to the downtrodden and the hopeless.

The Saba co-signed DMV rapper shares a boom-bap sermon to follow up his 2023 debut album Spleck.

Graham Jonson also provides some insight into the inspirations and processes that informed his upcoming album, I Heard That Noise.

An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Ahead of his new LP, we also press Will Wiesenfeld about being sampled by Charli XCX and the assessment that he’s getting “hotter and weirder” with every release.

The LA-based artist discusses the self-deprecation, imposter syndrome, and, ultimately, self-confidence of her debut album The Jester, which details her struggle to break into the music industry.

On his latest EP, the Detroit musician leans into his hip-hop roots while exploring what it means to love and resist over four quick-hit tracks enveloped by marijuana smoke.

Politically punk while sonically dance music, The B-52’s vocalist’s first solo record in nine years is a musically and thematically diverse scattershot of personal reflection and activism.

The 11 rock-out earworms chronicling depression and anxiety on the Tacoma-based group’s second LP are well worth the headache.

The Filipina-English artist’s Rick Rubin–produced third album provides a brutally realist introduction to the emotional maturation she’s undergone in the two years since her last LP.