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

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.

Fleshwater, 2000: In Search of the Endless Sky
The Massachusetts grungegazers settle on their sound with their second LP: a balancing of frantic energy with moody heaviness and an overall tone of passionately charged emo splendor.
Margaret Farrell

Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.

Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.

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.