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

Fly Anakin, (The) Forever Dream
The Virginia rapper’s guest-filled latest is a stellar collection of bright, diverse, and downright gorgeous hip-hop that’s so light-on-its-feet it can sometimes feel like it’s sweeping you off yours.

Tennis, Face Down in the Garden
The husband-and-wife duo calmly issue forth their always whimsical yet never overly precious musical blend of psych-tinged indie-pop from start to finish on their seventh and final LP.

Sarah Mary Chadwick, Take Me Out to a Bar / What Am I, Gatsby?
The deep crevices of profound dependence live within the Melbourne-based songwriter’s every word and melody throughout her grayly comic and experimentally recorded ninth album.
Mike LeSuer

Mina Walker and Kelley Dugan are gearing up to release their third indie-pop LP, The Rubber Teeth Talk, via S-Curve Records.

With this pivot to hyper-pop club-rap, the NYC-based artist shares how fashion, TV, and the elderly (i.e. anyone older than him) have shaped his work.

The Australian punks share a gluttonous video for the latest track to arrive from their third LP, Chrome Dipped.

The track marks the artist’s first recording since releasing music as Suno Deko.

With Tunde Adebimpe releasing his long-anticipated debut album, and his band touring in support of the 20-year anniversary of their own, we look into some of the lesser-known work from the NYC art-rockers.

Carolyn Fahrner’s self-released Somehow I Go in Circles All the Time EP will drop on May 16.

Takiaya Reed walks us through her new set of instrumental drone-metal tracks aiming to combat colonialist and genocidal ideology.

The track comes from the band’s new EP of the same name, which drops today via Graveface Records.

Garrett Burke invites listeners to Gloorp it up next week when his sophomore album sees a release via Jolt Music.

WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM, the LA-based artist’s debut for Stones Throw Records, is out May 30.

The songwriter and member of Sharon Van Etten’s Attachment Theory band will release her new solo album Autostatic! on May 23 via Switch Hit Records.

The Taos–based duo’s new collection of droning dream-pop Unknown Beyond will land later this year via Labrador Records.

The alt-rap duo announce that the track will appear on a new mixtape titled Formless, set to arrive May 23 via Heavenly Recordings.

The track will appear on the songwriter’s long-teased album arriving later this year via Interscope.

Alex Sauser-Monnig shares how everyone from Robyn to John Lurie inspired the whimsy and mystery of their second album, which drops this week via Psychic Hotline.

A video for the single lands ahead of the band’s new EP If I’m Being Honest, which drops later this year via Easy Does It Records.

With his debut EP arriving this week, the British-Colombian songwriter shares how the nostalgia and atmospherics of Frank Ocean, Radiohead, Prince, and more helped shape his sound.

The Singaporean songwriter shares how Carl Jung, life on a remote island, and cold showers helped define the concept for her second album.

The Utah-based artist shares how Blondie, Ratatat, Grimes, and more helped shape this collection, out now via Winspear.

The sophisti-pop songwriter’s follow-up to 2022’s Shine will arrive on June 27 via Born Losers Records.