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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
Matt Mitchell

The Brooklyn synth-pop trio are embarking on a world tour later this year.

The songwriter’s sophomore album is set to arrive on January 27 via Grand Jury.

The latest track from the Canadian duo’s 11th studio album Crybaby was inspired by Dehd and New Order.

The exhibition will coincide with the band’s four sold-out concerts in Brooklyn.

With the album out now via Sacred Bones, Luis Vasquez shares the emotions that catalyzed all 11 tracks.

One of the Netflix sensation’s most infamous landmarks can now be yours.

The Charlatans’ singer-songwriter breaks down all 22 tracks on his sixth solo record.

The LA-based folk singer is also heading out on the road this fall with Field Medic.

The dream pop band also releases cheeky ode to reply guys with new song “Very Online Guy”

Before taking the stage in San Diego this weekend, the French pop sextet share a dozen songs to help you get amped for the festival

Wet Leg
The Isle of Wight duo also announced four headlining dates in New York in December.

The Swedish quartet’s debut EP is due out in February 2023

The band’s twelfth album, ATUM, arrives in three parts over the next six months

The band is currently in the midst of their first US tour.

The prolific composer’s remastered solo debut Meaningless arrives October 21.

Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich discuss the “no-rules situation” their experimental third LP was born within.

The track from Local Natives’ Kelcey Ayer precedes his sophomore album, Second Life>.

In our latest digital cover story, we catch up with the Irish post-punk quintet before their upcoming US tour dates, including Primavera Sound in Los Angeles.

Along with sharing a video for “Sweet Tooth,” the second single ahead of her sophomore record Moss, the NYC polymath discusses how she’s been navigating her mid-20s in pandemic America.

A personal glimpse at how the songwriter’s 2012 art-pop record has emerged as a self-acceptance anthem 10 years down the road.