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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Margaret Farrell

Stephen Malkmus and Bob Nastanovich play doubles against Heidecker and Doug “DJ Douggpound” Lussenhop with narration by John Lurie.

The new version of her debut album includes seven previously unreleased songs.

It’s the fourth single from the musician’s forthcoming album Sometimes, Forever, out June 24.

The duo will release Fruit, their debut album as The A’s, on July 15.

With her debut album out now, Hannah Judge tells us about the best songs to lose your mind to.

It’s the second single from the duo’s collaborative album Cheat Codes, which is out June 17.

Foo Fighters
The band will perform at London’s Wembley Stadium and LA’s Kia Forum in September.

The track “Woody Shaw” arrives ahead of Jazz Codes, out July 1 via ANTI-.

Their debut album BAD MFs is out now via NFT platform Gala Music.

They also discuss the similarities between performing on stage and preaching on Killer Mike’s PBS interview program Love & Respect.

Killer Mike / photo by Carlo Cavaluzzi
The celebration of Black American Independence Day will take place on June 19.

The album is out July 29 via Zelig Records.

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.