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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Margaret Farrell

It’s the latest single from Sylvan Esso’s artist-forward record label Psychic Hotline.

The now-duo are releasing Love Is Yours, the follow-up to 2018’s Constant Image, on June 17.

Arcade Fire / photo by Andy Sawyer
The group will be releasing “The Lightning I, II” as a single on Thursday morning.

The new single announces their forthcoming self-titled album, out June 24 via Saddest Factory Records.

It’s the title track from his newly announced debut album, out May 20 via Saddest Factory Records.

It’s the lead single from their newly announced album Dropout Boogie, which arrives May 13 via Nonesuch.

The supergroup are dropping their collaborative album Full Court Press on April 8.

The fest, which also includes Flying Lotus, 2 Chainz, and Skrillex, will take place at Hart Plaza on the weekend of May 28.

The Chicago trio have also shared details on their debut album Versions of Modern Performance, which drops June 3.

It’s the second single from Nadya Tolokonnikova’s forthcoming Tove Lo–produced project.

The new single featuring activist Janey Starling follows last month’s “Baby, I Had an Abortion.”

The festival will return to Chicago’s Union Park on the weekend of July 15.

It’s the first single from their sophomore album World Wide Pop that’s out July 15.

Her debut album Greener on the Other Side is due later this year on Park the Van.

It’s the first new music from the duo since 2019’s Simpatico.

The duo share the latest visual from 2021’s Mercurial World before they start tours with Charli XCX, Porter Robinson, and Flume.

The EP’s tracks came out of the same sessions as her 2021 album Engine of Hell.

Both singles will appear on his forthcoming albums Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive.

The new version is the first release from a forthcoming collaboration album out later this year.

The Icelandic singer-songwriter describes the important Nordic landscapes that inspired her.