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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Mike LeSuer

The single arrives ahead of Javelin, his first indie-folk release since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell.

The cowpunks return with their second album since reforming in 2020 with Bitter End of a Sweet Night arriving on October 27 via In the Red Records.

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.