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

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.

Vundabar, Surgery and Pleasure
The infectious Boston trio’s sixth album adds some complexity to their signature jangle with darker, rougher textures, though its lyrics don’t always live up to the music’s maturity level.

Alabaster DePlume, A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole
Informed by the dualities of harm and healing, the English saxophonist and poet weaves a tapestry of sounds—spiritual jazz, folk, classical, and beyond—into a potent missive of grace.
Sadie Sartini Garner

UNSPECIFIED – CIRCA 1970: Photo of Bernie Worrell Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
The funk pioneer succumbed to cancer at the age of 72.

Sexy Dex and The Fresh / photo courtesy of the band
Get on up.

Peter Bjorn and John / photo by Marcus Palmqvist
The Swedish trio give us the highlights of their between-album work.

Space-age sadness from the nation’s capitol.

Allah-Las / no credit / 2016
From the group’s upcoming “Calico Review.”

Lemi Ghariokwu / courtesy himself
The man responsible for the look of Afrobeat tells us about his relationship with Fela Kuti.

No sunscreen required.

Under the rosé glow of the Pasadena sky, the two national sides opened play at the Copa America Centenario.

How do you follow up one of the most mythical records of the past twenty years? You blow out that beat.

Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s Ruban Nielson on Late Night with Seth Meyers
It’s the first new recording from the group since last year’s “Multi-Love.”

Dentist
West Coast punk makes it way to the Jersey Shore.

Mary and the Small Omission
The ambient-drone single is taken from the duo’s “The Effects are Cumulative,” out June 10.

The Atlanta quartet’s “Freedom” is their first new record since 2011.

He did a good-ass job.

From the British soul man’s Daptone debut, “Hold On!”

The Indiana auteur previews his third solo LP, “Casino Drone.”

U! S! A! U! S! A!

Joseph / 2015 at Pickathon / photo by Drew Bandy
The Oregon festival’s Spring Season carries on.

With the release of the “Burn the Witch” video, the group turn distribution into its own political art.

In the first edition of our new column, we take a closer look at the Houston Thai-funk group’s debut LP.