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

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.

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.
Margaret Farrell

Denim and Diamonds was produced by Queens of the Stone Age’s Joshua Homme and is out September 23.

The French rock band are currently in the studio finishing their follow-up to 2017’s Ti Amo.

The trio’s fifth studio album Cool It Down is out September 30 via Secretly Canadian.

It’s the title track from her debut EP that’s out July 15.

The songwriter discusses how her Chicago roots, her family, and Greek mythology shaped the cosmic journey that is her debut full-length.

Along with sharing the singles “A Stranger’s House” and “Nearer to Thee,” Butler also announced a series of live dates in August with River L. Ramirez.

Following 2021’s Loving in Stereo, the two singles come with a short film featuring dance troupe Ghetto Funk Collective.

The single arrives ahead of her anticipated sophomore album Masochism.

It’s the first single from her forthcoming Island Records debut MATA.

She also announced her signing to Neon Gold/Atlantic Records.

It’s the second single from the UK artist’s debut album Yesterday Is Heavy, out July 15.

Pavement publicity photos
Their 30-song set included a Jim Pepper cover.

The two songs are part of the band’s deluxe edition for their fourth album Long Lost.

It’s the fourth single from their self-titled album that’s out June 24 via Saddest Factory Records.

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.