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
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Margaret Farrell
The track arrives with news that the Johannesburg-born artist has signed to Partisan Records.
PRIZE, the follow-up to 2019’s What a Boost, is out January 13 via Memphis Industries.
Past curators include David Bowie, The Cure’s Robert Smith, Yoko Ono, and Nick Cave.
“Don’t Give Up” is the first single from GIZMO, out March 3 via Company Records.
Brockhampton
The group released their initially announced final album The Family a day early, with another LP titled TM dropping tomorrow.
All proceeds from the track go to the Los Angeles LGBT Center.
“Buffy” follows her album Classic Objects from earlier this year.
The festival returns to North Charleston, South Carolina, on the weekend of April 15.
The Brit-pop icons will be joined by slowthai, Self Esteem, and Jockstrap at Wembley Stadium.
It’s the second solo single from The xx member following 2020’s “Lifetime.”
The group shares a video for their first single since last year’s Get a Friend EP.
Pollen is out February 10 via the duo’s own label Mutually Detrimental.
Radical Romantics is out March 10 via Mute.
The A24 project has Jonah Hill signed on as Executive Producer.
It’s his first new music since his 2021 sophomore album Romeo.
Lindsey Jordan’s Valentine Fest will run from February 10 to 14 at Ottobar.
It’s the Queens rapper’s first release since his 2021 album Deem’s Tape.
The song was written for the forthcoming documentary Wildcat.
It’s the fifth single the Berlin-based musician has released this year.
The post-punk icon is releasing her debut album I Play My Bass Loud on February 24 via Third Man Records.
