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

Frog, 1000 Variations on the Same Song
The NYC indie-folk duo’s sixth album is a wonderful rumination on the perceived limitations of songcraft, using its 11 tracks to demonstrate the infinite approaches to universal themes.

The Altons, Heartache in Room 14
The Southeast LA band takes bold risks on their sophomore LP, blending Latin soul, Motown blues, psychedelic rock, bolero, and just a bit of their punk roots with a vintage production sheen.

Horsegirl, Phonetics On and On
On their Cate Le Bon–produced second album, the Chicago trio reflects the fragmentation and uncertainty of geographical change by experimenting with a more minimalist, primitive palette.
Kim March

The new single lands ahead of the Vienna-based songwriter’s sophomore album Refined Believer, slated for release on June 20 via Nettwerk.

The photo exhibit spotlighting NIN’s global tours between 1994 and 1996 will take place at the Morrison Hotel Gallery from February 20 – 23.

All proceeds will be donated to the Plus1LA Fires Fund, as well as to local artists in need of support.

The Canadian artist shares how The Chemical Brothers, ANOHNI, Mk.gee, and more inspired her new industrial EDM EP under the titular alter ego.

Nine Inch Nails
Beginning in August, Trent Reznor and co. will perform across North America after hitting the UK and Europe.

The 28-song digital release documents the artists’ Riot Fest afterparty at Chicago’s Empty Bottle back in September.

Teaming up with her mother Maggie Beard’s Support+Feed org, Eilish is helping small businesses in Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, NYC, and LA provide over 30,000 meals to the cities’ communities.

The event will feature music and exclusive merch.

Developed by The Healing Project and Worth Rises, the single aims to raise awareness of the legality of slavery in the US prison system.

The four-song collection is set to arrive on February 7.

The clip for the Wine on Venus track lands ahead of Election Day on November 5.

Big Rabbit’s newly announced album You Only Die 1nce is set to arrive at midnight.

The art-pop musician’s sophomore album Slow Jam Love Letters to My Body in Pieces will arrive on November 15.

Esteban Muñoz enlists the Chicago indie-pop group for the follow-up track to his collaboration-heavy debut released back in March.

As they begin touring their newly released second album, the ethereal-pop duo shares how everyone from Arlo Parks to ANOTR shaped its sound.

The track marks the indie-pop duo’s second single of 2024, both of which follow 2022’s Hello Sunshine LP.

With her warm-weather single “Different Way” out today, the producer shares how Neil Frances, Buena Vista Social Club, and more make for the perfect soundtrack to being out on the water.

The track closes out the Canadian songwriter’s debut EP Pretty Red Bird, which lands today via Sony Music Entertainment Canada.

The LA trio shares how documentaries on therapy and nature helped shape their latest collection of dance music.

The songwriter’s next chapter begins October 18 with the release of her I Really Don’t Care! EP.