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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Kim March

The GRAMMY-winning songwriter returns with her first collection of new songs in nearly a decade on March 1 with Lo.

The visual arrives alongside a reissue of his 2022 EP The Invisible Man.

The show will air on December 3 at 8 a.m. PT on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Elizabeth Nistico’s debut album as a solo artist will arrive in 2024.

Dana Foote shares how Tom Waits, Kishi Bashi, Jon Batiste, and more inspired her first new single since dropping her debut album I Am the Dog earlier this year.

The album will be released on February 2 via Island Records, and will feature previously released singles “Nothing Matters,” “Sinner,” and “My Lady of Mercy.”

After opening for hemlocke springs earlier this year, Jayden Nicole Binnix plans their debut album Forest (Monsters Live in the Trees) for release in January.

The latest single from the NYC-raised bassist and songwriter is out now via Capitol Records.

The Nashville-based songwriter’s soulful latest dropped last Friday via Soul Step Records and Trash Casual.

The Austin band’s new LP Chronicles of a Diamond is set to arrive on October 27 via ATO Records.

The Georgia-based songwriter’s debut album One Sided will drop November 10.

The melancholy track was produced by the teen songwriter’s mentor Brandi Carlile.

Coming off her supporting tour for Dua Lipa, Zouaï also shares some exclusive behind-the-scenes shots from the video’s filming in South Korea.

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The Nashville-based punks counter the serious lyrical themes of the track with a bit of silliness.

Black Bayou will arrive on October 27 via Easy Eye Sound.

Arriving ahead of the record’s October 13 release date via Loma Vista, the new tracks feature Ny Oh, Jonathan Wilson, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek.

“‘On My Mama’ is the soundtrack to positive affirmations,” said Monét.

Promising climate talks, plant-based food, and roller skating, the event will take place in West London on August 30.

The five-part series commemorating 50 years of the genre arrives via Audible.

The performance video lands ahead of the LA rockers’ late-summer Time Will Wait For No One tour.