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

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.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
Margaret Farrell

It’s the first new music from the North Carolina duo since 2020’s Free Love.

It’s the first single off the Jack Antonoff–produced soundtrack for Minions: The Rise of Gru that also features St. Vincent, Brockhampton, Thundercat, and Phoebe Bridgers.

It’s the fourth single from her upcoming debut album Hypnos, which arrives this Friday.

A video for the single arrives ahead of her Star Stuff EP, which is still in the works.

Jamie xx, Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, M.I.A., James Blake, and Arca are also among the artists performing at the San Francisco fest in September.

Their self-titled EP will see a physical release on June 18 via Partisan.

Available June 3, the deluxe version of her debut album comes with three new tracks.

The Nashville rapper’s new album Metropolis drops June 3 via Mello Music Group.

After a three-year hiatus, the series will return to the LA art museum from June through September.

The video celebrates the one-year anniversary of Maria Ulven’s debut album if i could make it go quiet.

Strange details a painful reality for Black youth in America on his latest single from Farm to Table.

Nine Inch Nails / photo by Daniel Cavazos
Other performers include Ice Cube, Sleater-Kinney, Bauhaus, Descendents, Yellowcard, Alice Glass, The Wonder Years, Bully, and Sunny Day Real Estate.

Asphalt Meadows, the follow-up to 2018’s Thank You for Today, is out September 16.

Cheat Codes—out August 12—features MF Doom, Raekwon & Kid Sister, Joey Bada$$, Conway the Machine, and A$AP Rocky with Run the Jewels.

Apple announced the discontinuation of the iPod Touch—the last variation of the product originally launched over 20 years ago.

It’s the lead single from her forthcoming album Pre Pleasure, out August 26 via Polyvinyl.

Caroline Polachek
The Jack Antonoff–produced project also includes Thundercat, Brockhampton, and Phoebe Bridgers covering classic ’70s hits.

The Pipettes’ Rose Elinor Dougall and Blur’s Graham Coxon share their first song as a duo.

The single follows Rocky’s recent collaborations with A$AP Ant, $NOT, and Nigo.

It’s the English songwriter’s first release since dropping her sophomore album Colourgrade last year.