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
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.
Miguel, Caos
The alt-R&B star’s fifth album embraces existential lyrical concepts to match its dusky jazz-electro sound, industrial ambience, and grouchy fuzzed guitars.
Margaret Farrell
Her debut album I Hope You Can Forgive Me is out May 12.
The album of the same name—and the duo’s first in eight years—is out May 19 via Merge.
A collaboration with pianists Timo Andres and Conor Hanick, Reflections is out May 19 via Asthmatic Kitty.
The new edition features 13 never-before-released bonus tracks.
It’s the title track from the Manchester trio’s new album, out tomorrow.
Her forthcoming debut solo album The Love Invention is out May 12.
The mix arrives ahead of their Coachella debut this weekend.
The Cake-inspired single is the latest from Nate Amos and Rachel Brown’s forthcoming debut for Matador Records.
First Two Pages of Frankenstein is out April 28 via 4AD.
The track was co-produced with illuminati hotties’ Sarah Tudzin.
It’s the group’s first new music since 2021’s Ice Melt.
Julian Casablancas’ band cryptically vows to “usher in a new era of extreme cosmic (emotional) heat” this summer.
The duo have announced a new EP titled In My Myth arriving May 5 via Domino.
The single serves as the title track from a new EP coming out this Friday on Jagjaguwar.
The Asheville rockers discuss their new album Rat Saw God and converting real-life experiences into songs that whip audiences into a frenzy.
Safe to Run is out April 21 via New West Records.
His first record in over a decade will drop later this year.
The UK group’s sophomore LP I Don’t Know arrives June 30.
MotherFather is out April 14 via Roya.
Blondshell / photo by Kenn Box
Sabrina Teitelbaum’s self-titled debut album is out Friday.
