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.
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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
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Sinai Vessel, I Sing
Caleb Cordes provides a thoughtfully nuanced thesis statement for his heartland indie-rock project as he paints a portrait of an artist working under the long shadow of late capitalism.
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BLK ODYSSY, 1-800-FANTASY
On his third showcase of vivid storytelling under the moniker, Juwan Elcock adds early 2000s pop-rock to his pre-established melting pot of R&B, hip-hop, funk, and jazz.
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Wand, Vertigo
The Cali psych-rockers offer tangible connections between their early, blazing garage bashers and later forays into more progressive terrain with their adventurously cohesive sixth LP.
Margaret Farrell
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PTM’s new album Chris Black Changed My Life is out June 23 via Atlantic Records.
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The six-song project follows last year’s No Rules Sandy LP.
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The LA hardcore group’s forthcoming debut album Life Under the Gun is out June 23 via Loma Vista.
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It’s his first single since 2020’s NO DREAM.
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The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.
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Smith makes good on the promise of 2021’s Be Right Back LP with its follow-up arriving September 29 via FAMM.
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Her debut album is projected to arrive later this year.
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The follow-up to 2017’s Mellow Waves is out June 28 via Warner Music Japan.
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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.
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Lucky for You is out June 2 via Sub Pop.
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My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 via Secretly Canadian.
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Spoon
The three-track collection featuring songs from the Lucifer on the Sofa sessions is out June 13 via Matador.
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Blondshell will be opening the month-long US tour kicking off in November.
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Caroline Polachek
The music and internet-culture festival will take place in Idyllwild, California the weekend of August 4.
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Additionally featuring a visual for recent single “Don’t Let the Devil,” the film honors Mike’s late mother.
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In Times New Roman…, their first LP in six years, is out June 16 via Matador.
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It’s Monét’s second single of the year, following the Lucky Daye collaboration “Smoke.”
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It’s the third single from their LP Girl with Fish, out June 9 via Saddle Creek.
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Her fifth solo album Joy’All is out June 9.
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The duo’s Matador Records debut Everyone’s Crushed is out May 26.