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.
Margaret Farrell

What’s the Furthest Place From Here? continues its 7-inch series this September.

The follow-up to 2020’s You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere is out now via Fat Possum.

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.