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 Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Mike LeSuer
The Quebecois nu-disco trio’s latest record Comme dans un penthouse arrives September 22 via Lisbon Lux Records.
Created by Kramer, the video recycles footage from Jean Renoir’s 1928 film The Little Match Girl.
The horror-B-movie visual arrives with news of the San Francisco post-punks’ new album Jumbo, landing October 13 via Rocks in Your Head Records and Time Room Records.
The London-based musician’s new EP MSG is out this Friday via Transgressive Records.
“Disenchanted” arrives ahead of the Scottish punks’ fifth record on October 27 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co. + Wish Fulfillment Press.
The song will appear on their debut album Vs. the Worm, arriving August 25 via What’s for Breakfast? Records.
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.
