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

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.
Kim 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.

With his fourth LP out now via Mercury Records, Sloan Struble takes us track by track through Dayglow.

Josh Ostrander also contributes a track-by-track breakdown of his latest release, out tomorrow via Last Gang Records.

The track introduces Kayla Graninger’s sophomore album, Divine Urge, which lands October 25 via Congrats Records.

The alt-R&B songwriter shares a visual for the latest single from his LP Zinc., which arrives next month via Mom + Pop.

Ahead of the project’s official release tomorrow, the LA-based songwriter is also sharing a visual for the EP cut “Hate Myself.”

Ruby McKinnon’s fourth record Girl Prometheus arrives November 1 via Nettwerk.

Tickets are on sale now for “Amazing Humans Doing Amazing Things!,” a benefit show for the magazine which will take place on October 8 at Town Hall NYC.

The alt-pop group’s new guest-heavy LP Nosebleeds:Encore is out today, and features additional collaborations from Pom Pom Squad, Meet Me @ the Altar, and more.

McMahon’s recently revived emo-pop outfit will pick up their Out of Office tour again in August.

Ahead of their set at Pitchfork Fest this weekend, the riot grrrl icons share that the remastered versions of their second and third LPs will drop October 25 via Kill Rock Stars.

The Connecticut-based songwriter shares her first new track after inking a deal with Giant Music.

The 2022 hit gets reimagined for the Nashville-based songwriter’s new LP June, Baby, out today via One Riot Records.

The Amsterdam-based songwriter’s new project is set to arrive August 30 via New West Records.

The London-based dance-pop songwriter shares how everyone from Can to Dua Lipa inspired his follow-up to 2022’s Mellow Moon.