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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Margaret Farrell

Her self-titled album is out April 7 via Partisan Records.

Mythologies is out April 9 via Erato/Warner Classics.

Faux shares an official video for her latest single, along with a Uniiqu3 remix.

Olive Osby and Avsha Weinberg discuss applying the themes of selfhood explored on their recent debut full-length I Love to Lie to life on the road.

It’s the second single from Hannah Van Loon and Chaz Bear of Toro y Moi’s forthcoming album GIZMO.

The new single is the follow-up to last year’s “No Hay Ley.”

Her follow-up to 2021’s Collapsed in Sunbeams is out May 26 via Transgressive.

The reimagined version of a track from last year’s Planet EP features guitar from MJ Lenderman.

“Tropic Morning News” is the first single from First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which arrives April 28 via 4AD.

Following their self-titled EP in 2018, Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus will release the record on March 31 via Interscope.

Rat Saw God is out April 7 via Dead Oceans.

Their debut album Dogsbody is out February 24 via True Panther.

Desire Pathway is out February 17 via Don Giovanni.

It’s the first music from the Manchester-based quartet since their 2021 EP.

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Out March 10, the record features collaborations with Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro, and Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
MGMT will perform their 2008 debut album Oracular Spectacular in full at the Pasadena-based fest on May 13.

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Other highlights include Lil Uzi Vert, HAIM, girl in red, Rina Sawayama, and Snail Mail.

It’s Lætitia Tamko’s first new music since 2019’s self-titled LP.

It’s the third single from their forthcoming album This Is Why that’s out February 10.

Hot on the heels of the Roots emcee’s project with Danger Mouse, Glorious Game is out April 14 via Big Crown Records.