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

Ahead of their debut for Matador Records, Rachel Brown and Nate Amos talk Everyone’s Crushed, changing routines, and newfound exposure—well, actually mostly just 311.

Two groups making Chicago proud.

Beach House
The Become EP, a collection of five outtakes from the Once Twice Melody sessions, will also be widely available on vinyl on May 19.

So Many Realities Exist Simultaneously is out May 5 via Rhymesayers.

Their newly announced Din EP is out June 30 via Mark Ronson’s Zelig Records.

“Hinoki Wood” is the opening track from the follow-up to 2020’s Mia Gargaret, arriving May 26.

The follow-up to 2020’s Lowkey Superstar is out May 26 via drink sum wtr.

I Inside the Old Year Dying, her tenth album, is out July 7 via Partisan.

Hear the first two singles from More Photographs (A Continuum), which is out May 26 via Dead Oceans.

The collaboration marks Thundercat’s first new music in three years.

The solo debut comes in the wake of Fontaines’ 2022 album Skinty Fia.

The London-based trio’s self-titled debut album is out May 12 via Third Man Records.

Alicia Bognanno’s new LP Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.

“Claire’s a good friend since she brought me on her tour around the release of her first album.”

MICHAEL, the rapper’s first solo album in over a decade, is out June 16.

Foo Fighters / photo by Andreas Nuemann
The band’s eleventh studio album—and their first following the passing of drummer Taylor Hawkins—is out June 2.

Her debut album Disenchanter is out July 14 via Luminelle Recordings.

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.