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 Valley of Vision is out March 10 via Loma Vista.

It’s the second single from their forthcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which arrives April 28 via 4AD.

AW & Molly Neuman Brats
The Oakland fest featuring Le Tigre, Gravy Train!!!!, ESG, and more will take place the weekend of July 1.

We’re getting lucky with 35 minutes of unreleased music on May 12.

I Hope You Can Forgive Me is out May 12.

The duo’s new album So Many Other Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.

Margaret Sohn discusses how sci-fi texts such as Ex Machina and Donna J. Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto inspired their debut album Follow the Cyborg.

It’s the second single from their forthcoming debut album Past // Present // Future that’s out March 10 on Fueled by Ramen.

photo Jolene Sian
The tour kicks off in April and will run through May.

The single arrives ahead of the band’s upcoming dates supporting White Reaper.

Big Picture is out April 14 via Dead Oceans.

The original version appeared on Samira Winter’s album from last year What Kind of Blue Are You?.

The new single announces her EP BAD PREMONITION that’s out March 17.

It’s the second sample from their forthcoming album Continue as a Guest, which arrives March 31 via Merge.

The supergroup was recently disinvited from performing as the house band for Seattle’s Amazon-associated NHL arena after performing the track.

Alicia Bognanno of BULLY
Alicia Bognanno returns with her first music since 2021’s “Just for Love.”

The single follows the London-based collective’s work with Tirzah last year.

Multitudes is out April 14 via Interscope.

Dry Cleaning, photographed in Max Miechowski’s studio in Tottenham, London, on 09/27/2022.
Their newly announced Swampy EP is out March 1.

Their collaborative debut Glorious Game is out April 14 via Big Crown Records.