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

The Dirty Nil, The Lash
Harrowing and fun in equal measure, the Ontario groups’ fifth record is a deliberate return to their raw punk ’n’ roll roots with a newfound sense of vulnerability lying beneath all the noise.

Nick Drake, The Making of Five Leaves Left
Meant to tell a deeper story behind the songwriter’s 1969 debut, each demo, outtake, and alternate version on this 4-LP set radiates the piecemeal feel of a novice grasping his way through a new endeavor.

Stars of the Lid, Music for Nitrous Oxide [30 Year Anniversary]
Released for the first time on vinyl, the Austin drone duo’s dark, raw debut elicits awe, wonder, and terror all at once as it confronts listeners with the darker aspects of existence.
Mike LeSuer

Messages to God, the Melbourne-based songwriter’s debut for Kill Rock Stars, is out September 15.

Lindsey Radice’s third LP Songies lands August 18.

Hellie previously produced and co-wrote songs on Phoenix’s 2019 release River.

The single follows Cathedral Bells’ announcement of a set of West Coast tour dates, and will appear on the upcoming album from Beach Vacation.

The not-quite-cover arrives with a video that contemplates the important question: Do vampires celebrate birthdays?

Harper Simon’s multimedia project also prepares for special events this weekend at Printed Matter’s 2023 LA Art Book Fair and Zebulon.

The Ventura punks’ new “Screeching Weasel worship” tune arrives ahead of their album When the Band Breaks Up Again, dropping September 8 via SideOneDummy.

It’s the final single landing ahead of the ever-mutating Detroit collective’s new album Perfect Savior.

The track will come packaged with Kurt Vile’s take on another song by the Seattle rockers on October 27 via Suicide Squeeze.

Marshall Gallagher cites Catherine Wheel, White Reaper, Deftones, and more as influences as he takes us track by track through the LA shoegazers’ third LP.

The Phoenix-based songwriter’s sophomore record somebody in hell loves you arrives September 15 via Rude Records.

The Brooklyn-based art-punks land alongside Chad VanGaalen, Tough Age, Idle Ray, and more on the label compilation arriving August 25.

Chris Forsyth and Movietone’s Kate Wright join the band on the first single from their new LP New Earth Seed, arriving September 22 via Arrowhawk Records.

Their collaborative debut album Doubles will arrive September 22 via Orindal Records.

Domino, Blue Broderick’s follow up to last year’s Four Wheels and the Truth, lands August 18 via Bar/None.

The second single from BROODS’s Georgia Nott under the solo moniker arrives ahead of her debut EP Fish Bird Baby Boy, out October 6 via Luminelle Recordings.

Lutalo Jones’ new EP AGAIN is set to arrive August 25 via Winspear in the midst of touring alongside Katy Kirby and Claud.

Following their 2017 collaboration “Funk That,” the veteran producer and nu-disco duo reteamed for a cut on Nickodemus’ recent LP Soul & Science.

After sharing a dispatch from the studio last week, the songwriter has since revealed that new LP The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We will arrive September 15 via Dead Oceans.

Denzel Curry
A shortened version of the track was released last week with an Omar Jones–directed visual.