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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Margaret Farrell

The second single from My Soft Machine features production assistance from Brockhampton’s Romil Hemnani and Carter Lang.

It’s the Jagjaguwar signee’s first release of the year.

SPEED RUN, the hyperpop duo’s first release for True Panther, is out April 14.

Other notable acts include Ela Minus, Zeds Dead, Caribou, and Uniiqu3 for the fest taking place Memorial Day weekend.

It’s the third single from Praise a Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume, which arrives March 17 via Warp Records.

Water From Your Eyes at Matador
The follow-up to 2021’s Structure is out May 26 via their new label home of Matador Records.

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.