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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Mike LeSuer

The Australian group’s third LP is out today via ATO Records.

“I See a Darkness” marks the first new music released through Wasif’s Voidist Records, which will now be home to the artist’s back catalog.

The Y2K-invoking track serves as the indie-pop group’s second release via their new label home of Nettwerk Music Group.

A video for the track lands ahead of emcees Oreo Jones and Sirius Blvck and producer Sedcairn’s second album, Bad Dogs, dropping July 11 via Joyful Noise.

Formerly one half of Talk Normal, Register’s debut double-single is out now.

Ron Mael shares which cultural figures and Parisian neighborhoods may have subtly shaded the duo’s 26th album.

Out today, his experimental debut solo EP N?C succinctly encapsulates his recent relocation from Chicago to New York City.

The LA band’s serpentine third record Dream 3 is out July 11 via Born Losers Records.

The NYC-based songwriter’s Kramer co-produced new album What We Have Now arrives this week via Shimmy-Disc.

Meg Remy answers a few questions about the latest single from her new album recorded with a full band in Nashville, Scratch It.

Maria Crawford’s new country-tinged track follows the single “Pleaser” she released back in March.

The track serves as the lead single for Cassie Wieland’s debut album, I’ll be here, which arrives July 18.

The Asheville pop-punks are gearing up for summer tours with Michael Cera Palin, Dikembe, and Equipment.

The songwriter’s mini-album focusing on each hour of the morning is out today via Concord.

The Japanese-British artist takes us track by track through the nu-R&B of her follow up to 2023’s MSG EP.

Esteban Flores’s debut album A Joy So Slow at Times I Don’t Think It’s Coming drops tomorrow via Mick Music.

James Palko’s project will release their debut album Ripe this Friday via SideOneDummy.

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.

The psych-soul septet shares how Sly and the Family Stone, Modest Mouse, Nala Sinephro, and more helped inspire their latest improvisatory LP, out this week via Don Giovanni.

Co-released by Italians Do It Better and Annapurna Interactive, the track will serve as the soundtrack to the upcoming game Wheel World.