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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Margaret Farrell

He also announced that his debut album Hideous Bastard is out September 9 via Young.

The two musicians met last year and quickly bonded.

The popstar will be taking the Isle of Wight group on tour with him in 2023.

Smith details his excitement for the upcoming 12-track album that will be released before the band’s winter tour.

Bridie Monds-Watson discusses the existential dread that inspired each song from their third album, out now via Rough Trade.

The single arrives ahead of FKJ’s forthcoming album V I N C E N T, out June 10.

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.