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

Anika, Abyss
On her third LP, the Berlin-via-UK songwriter rediscovers her roots as a lyricist and as a vocalist within the roomy ambience that the finest moments of the record provide.

Cleopatrick, FAKE MOON
Doing away with their blues-stomp/desert-rock hybrid in favor of something more mellow and downbeat, the Canadian duo’s sophomore LP is a collection of deep sighs and broken hearts.

Momma, Welcome to My Blue Sky
The Brooklyn quartet furthers their liberated bless-this-mess energy with the soft, cheeky smile of dream pop to provide a go-to soundtrack for driving on the highway with windows down.
Margaret Farrell

Spoon
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.

Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.

Caroline Polachek
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.

Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.

In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.

It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”

It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.

Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.

The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.

The other half of Melodies on Hiatus, the guitarist’s fifth solo album, is out June 23 via Red Bull Records.

The 14-track collection comes from his three sold-out hometown shows at the Philadelphia venue in 2022.

Bush Tetras March 2023
Following the passing of drummer Dee Pop, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley recorded drums and produced They Live in My Mind.

Indigo De Souza / photo by Skylar Watkins
The free outdoor concert series, curated this year by L’Rain, takes place in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park from June 7 through August 24.

Cosentino’s new record will arrive July 28 via Concord Records as her band takes an indefinite hiatus.

Lead single “Bogus Operandi” arrives ahead of the new LP The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, which is out August 11.

The track comes with the announcement of Claud’s sophomore album Supermodels, arriving July 14 via Saddest Factory Records.

Sugar the Bruise is out June 16 via Fat Possum.

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.