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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Kim March

The Brighton collective share their first new music since 2020’s “Facing Home Mixtape.”

It’s one of two singles from the Philly band that arrives today ahead of a promised future full-length.

Hear what the D.C. trio had to say about the 13 tracks that encapsulate the highs and lows of life since the pandemic.

“Fits of Laughter” arrives August 13 via Elektra Records.

The rockers will be joined by Cherry Glazerr in LA on August 14 ahead of a September 9 set in Berkeley.

“Phantom Island,” the Swedish duo’s first LP in nearly nine years, arrives this summer.

It’s the follow-up single to the group’s first EP “Luna.”

The Utah rockers take on the rapper’s “Swimming” single.

The Swedish musician’s forthcoming debut EP “Kantande Wanai” is out June 4.

The Phil Ek–produced record arrives June 25 via Cherry Lime Records.

The pair are joined by Krist Novoselic on the track from Grohl Sr.’s new touring documentary.

The art-pop collective shares the soulful first single from the new album, out July 9 on Paper Bag Records.

Their upcoming album “Bonfires” is due this summer.

The single follows last month’s “Drugs in California.”

The latest record from the Canadian multi-instrumentalist formerly known as JBM arrives June 25.

The track arrives ahead of the Burbank-based duo’s debut LP “LA Fade.”

The Foos’ video for “Chasing Birds” is a reminder to stay hydrated.

The new music video for their track off this month’s “Paradigmes” is vibrant nightclub bliss.

Read a brief exclusive Q&A with González on his involvement with the April 21 event.

The album arrives May 14 via New West Records, with a tour kicking off May 1.