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

AJJ, Disposable Everything
The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.

Tinariwen, Amatssou
On their ninth album, the Malian outfit moves further through their exploratory desert-blues aesthetic by interlocking their groove with the sounds of American country music.

Thee Oh Sees, Live at Levitation
This 2012 recording from the Austin psych-rock festival makes the argument that the band can prove their mettle in just 40 minutes.
Margaret Farrell

A video for new track “Devotion” lands before the LP drops tomorrow via Transgressive.

The OST drops July 21 to coincide with the movie hitting theaters.

The follow-up to 2020’s What Could Possibly Go Wrong is out July 7 via Columbia Records.

PTM’s new album Chris Black Changed My Life is out June 23 via Atlantic Records.

The six-song project follows last year’s No Rules Sandy LP.

The LA hardcore group’s forthcoming debut album Life Under the Gun is out June 23 via Loma Vista.

It’s his first single since 2020’s NO DREAM.

The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.

Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.

Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.

The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.

Returning for the first time since its 2018 debut, the event will take place September 15 and 16 at Cincinnati’s ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park.

Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.

My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.

Spoon
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.

Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.

Caroline Polachek
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.

Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.

In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.

It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”

It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.

Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.

The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.

The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.

The 14-track collection comes from his three sold-out hometown shows at the Philadelphia venue in 2022.

Bush Tetras March 2023
Following the passing of drummer Dee Pop, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley recorded drums and produced They Live in My Mind.

Indigo De Souza / photo by Skylar Watkins
The free outdoor concert series, curated this year by L’Rain, takes place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from June 7 through August 24.

Cosentino’s new record will arrive July 28 via Concord Records as her band takes an indefinite hiatus.

Lead single “Bogus Operandi” arrives ahead of the new LP The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which is out August 11.

The track comes with the announcement of Claud’s sophomore album Supermodels, arriving July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.

Sugar the Bruise is out June 16 via Fat Possum.

Ahead of their debut for Matador Records, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos talk Everyone’s Crushed, changing routines, and newfound exposure—well, actually mostly just 311.

Two groups making Chicago proud.

Beach House
The Become EP, a collection of five outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions, will also be widely available on vinyl on May 19.

So Many Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.

Their newly announced Din EP is out June 30 via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.

“Hinoki Wood” is the opening track from the follow-up to 2020’s Mia Gargaret, arriving May 26.

The follow-up to 2020’s Lowkey Superstar is out May 26 via drink sum wtr.

I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth album, is out July 7 via Partisan.

Hear the first two singles from More Photographs (A Continuum), which is out May 26 via Dead Oceans.

The collaboration marks Thundercat’s first new music in three years.

The solo debut comes in the wake of Fontaines’ 2022 album Skinty Fia.

The London-based trio’s self-titled debut album is out May 12 via Third Man Records.

Alicia Bognanno’s new LP Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.

“Claire’s a good friend since she brought me on her tour around the release of her first album.”

MICHAEL, the rapper’s first solo album in over a decade, is out June 16.

Foo Fighters / photo by Andreas Nuemann
The band’s eleventh studio album—and their first following the passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins—is out June 2.

Her debut album Disenchanter is out July 14 via Luminelle Recordings.

Her debut album I Hope You Can Forgive Me is out May 12.

The album of the same name—and the duo’s first in eight years—is out May 19 via Merge.

A collaboration with pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, Reflections is out May 19 via Asthmatic Kitty.

The new edition features 13 never-before-released bonus tracks.

It’s the title track from the Manchester trio’s new album, out tomorrow.

Her forthcoming debut solo album The Love Invention is out May 12.

The mix arrives ahead of their Coachella debut this weekend.

The Cake-inspired single is the latest from Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s forthcoming debut for Matador Records.

First Two Pages of Frankenstein is out April 28 via 4AD.

The track was co-produced with illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin.

It’s the group’s first new music since 2021’s Ice Melt.

Julian Casablancas’ band cryptically vows to “usher in a new era of extreme cosmic (emotional) heat” this summer.

The duo have announced a new EP titled In My Myth arriving May 5 via Domino.

The single serves as the title track from a new EP coming out this Friday on Jagjaguwar.

The Asheville rockers discuss their new album Rat Saw God and converting real-life experiences into songs that whip audiences into a frenzy.

Safe to Run is out April 21 via New West Records.

His first record in over a decade will drop later this year.

The UK group’s sophomore LP I Don’t Know arrives June 30.

MotherFather is out April 14 via Roya.

Blondshell / photo by Kenn Box
Sabrina Teitelbaum’s self-titled debut album is out Friday.

Her new album All of This Will End is out April 28 via Saddle Creek.

Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
Tickets for the first 44 shows at DC’s The Atlantis will be $44 to celebrate the 9:30 Club’s 44th year anniversary.

Polachek dropped her latest album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You last month.

The track follows the Baltimore band’s Golden Arc and Construction EPs from last year.

The track appeared on the production duo’s recent lil spirits EP.

It’s the producer’s second single of the year.

It’s the official visual for the title track from her 2022 album.

Be Your Own PET at Hair of the Dog / Marshall showcase at Mohawk
The single follows their series of rowdy SXSW shows.

Euphoric, the follow-up to 2020’s Seeking Thrills, is out July 28 via Domino.

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The single lands ahead of Lanza’s US tour with Yaeji.

Her fifth solo album is out June 9 via Blue Note/Capitol Records.

the record, the debut full-length from Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus, is out this Friday via Interscope.

Their 26-date tour begins on July 28 in Las Vegas.

The original version of the single appeared on her 2022 album Miss Power.

The Happy Valley, Oregon fest returns on August 3 at Pendarvis Farm.

Nick Cave
Tickets go on sale March 31.

Sleater Kinney at Hammerstein Ballroom in New York, NY. October 31, 2019. Photo by Joshua Mellin
The dream of the ’90s is alive in Seattle.

The Montreal-based producer and multi-instrumentalist shares her first track of the year before going on tour with Yaeji.

The cover arrives ahead of the new anthology The Endless Coloured Ways – The Songs of Nick Drake, out July 7 via Chrysalis Records.

Their latest LP Rat Saw God is out April 7 via Dead Oceans.

It’s the second single from the Arkansas rapper this year, following “Me First.”

Madeline Link’s sophomore album Crispy Crunchy Nothing is out March 31 via Fire Talk.

Nymph_o, the extended version of Shygirl’s debut album, arrives April 14.

Alex Perry Ross reunited with Bully to direct the video for the first single from Lucky for You.

The duo’s collaborative album of the same name is out Friday.

Lana Del Rey, The 1975, Karol G, ODESZA, and TOMORROW X TOGETHER will also headline the Chicago festival returning to Grant Park the weekend of August 3.

Susannah Cutler discusses the latest single from her sophomore album We Know the Sky that’s out March 24.

The Love Invention is out May 12 via Skint/BMG.

The single announces the Go-Go’s vocalist’s new EP Kismet that’s out May 12.

The group will debut new songs with a 41-piece orchestra across North America, Europe, and the UK later this year.

It’s the first glimpse of new music from twigs since last summer’s one-off single “Killer.”