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

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
Margaret Farrell

PTM’s new album Chris Black Changed My Life is out June 23 via Atlantic Records.

The six-song project follows last year’s No Rules Sandy LP.

The LA hardcore group’s forthcoming debut album Life Under the Gun is out June 23 via Loma Vista.

It’s his first single since 2020’s NO DREAM.

The Ballad of Darren is out July 21 via Parlophone.

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.