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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Margaret Farrell

The new track featuring the dancehall music living legend is the third single from the rapper’s forthcoming album Beware of the Monkey.

Arriving this Friday, The Perfect Vision: Reworkings also features remixes by Jim Jarmusch, Lucrecia Dalt, Laraaji, and more.

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.