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

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
Margaret Farrell

The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.

Returning for the first time since its 2018 debut, the event will take place September 15 and 16 at Cincinnati’s ICON Festival Stage at Smale Park.

Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.

My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.

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.