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

Ólafur Arnalds & Talos, A Dawning
This seamless collaboration fuses the Icelandic composer’s gentle, piano-based soundscapes with the late Irish artist’s poignant electronica and singular voice without ever feeling saccharine.

Gina Birch, Trouble
This second solo LP moves further into the Raincoats co-founder’s melodic mix of dub-rock, neo-jazz, skeletal R&B, and space-pop as she continues to eschew creature comforts.

Chat Pile, This Dungeon Earth/Remove Your Skin Please [Reissue]
This single-vinyl compendium welds together the two EP releases that preceded the OKC sludge-rockers’ formal introduction to the unwitting masses.
Mike LeSuer

After a stint in the Late Night with Seth Meyers band, the math-rock shredder returns with her first album in a decade.

With the Broken Social Scene co-founder’s third album under his given name arriving this week, he shares tracks by Morphine, Kevin Morby, Low, and more that inspired the new project.

As she wraps up her tour with Vacations and Last Dinosaurs, Bailey Crone shares a meditative new track.

Co-produced by Fucked Up’s Jonah Falco and Crocodiles’ Brandon Welchez, the track precedes a set of North American dates opening for The Hives—as well as a new LP in 2024.

The Australian psych-funk ensemble’s third record will arrive March 1 via Heavenly.

Available for one month only via FADER Label’s Bandcamp, the 45-song comp benefits the Transgender Law Center in the US, Mermaids in the UK, and the Rainbow Railroad in Canada.

The Cincinnati-based psych-rockers’ new album Painting by Numbers drops this Friday via Soul Step Records.

Boston-based songwriter Tiffany Sammy’s debut LP So Serious arrives in full this Friday via Totally Real Records and Dollhouse Lightning.

Nowhere to Go but Up, the band’s third LP of 2023, arrives November 24 via GBV Inc.

The track appeared on the Arizona-based songwriter’s recent Songs for No One Vol. 1 EP.

Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg’s follow-up to last year’s debut LP I Love to Lie is out now.

The duo promise a full EP and tour in the near future.

Before taking the stage at Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavík next weekend, the Of Monsters and Men vocalist shares a few of her favorite songs by musicians local to her home country.

The slasher-inspired clip arrives ahead of tomorrow’s release of the Charlotte punks’ new LP Legend Tripping.

Produced by Mo Troper, Brenden Ramirez’s new collection of songs arrives December 8 via Earth Libraries imprint Earth Worms.

The Brooklyn-based songwriter has announced that her second album Psychedelic Anxiety will arrive February 16 on Ramp Local.

The West Coast power-pop musicians share the most lavish highlights of their recent US tour.

The single’s proceeds will be donated to The Byrd Foundation for Racial Healing and The Matthew Shepard Foundation.

As the songwriter’s tour of her home country supporting her latest LP EMOTION SICKNESS winds down, she shares 12 songs by her local musical heroes.

Produced by Mathematics, the track features Method Man and Ghostface Killah along with R&B vocalist Nicole Bus.