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

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.
Mike LeSuer

From CHAI and CHAII to JayWood and Jay Wood, here are all the sets of artists we struggled to differentiate in 2023.

Out now via Spinning Top Records, the Australian electropop trio’s first LP since their 2020 debut is a cathartic post-pandemic return to the club.

The new track from the Lake Street Dive co-founder arrives with an animated video that certainly doesn’t help us not think about a polar bear.

Cartwheel, the no-longer-Minnesota-based songwriter’s sophomore album with the band, is out now via Third Man Records.

The Albuquerque group embraces ’80s stadium pop and glam metal on the track, while its visual pays homage to the 1987 film Broadcast News.

Soccer Mommy
Presented by Ground Control Touring and Noise for Now, the event will take place January 20 in LA, NYC, Chicago, Nashville, and Philly.

Wrapping up after its third season this past fall, the HBO docuseries provided an odd source of comfort in the post-pandemic world.

Chaos Takes the Wheel and I Am a Passenger, the second LP from the San Jose punks, is out now via Tiny Engines.

With their new LP dropping next week via Track Number Records, Andy Schiaffino shares a handful of shoegaze tones and ambient textures that steered their own songs’ direction.

The latest release from the Toronto folk-rock collective lands February 23 via Orindal Records in the US and Gold Day Recordings in the UK.

crawl__space, spark__space, and shine__space are all out now via Epitaph Records.

The Angeleno-by-way-of-Singaporean musician’s latest release is out today via Nettwerk.

The Underachievers emcee will be teaming up with the Nepalese lo-fi producer for a full-length collaboration in 2024.

The new music project from Curtis Everett Pawley, one half of cult film podcast The Ion Pack, releases its debut EP I Would Do Anything for Love tomorrow.

The track will appear on Shimmy-Disc’s forthcoming ALIVE in NEW YORK CITY LP featuring a full live performance recorded by Kramer in addition to a new set of demos.

The track marks Jamie Sierota’s first new track since releasing his debut album Do Ya? earlier this year.

Bartees Strange collaborator Eliza Vera’s sophomore EP Welcome to the Club lands January 18 via Tone Tree.

The Canadian rockers share 10 songs that got them through their respective heartbreaks which happened to coincide with the release of their latest LP, Blame My Ex, in September.

The Oslo-based project’s latest EP Tøyen, ‘13 will be arriving in February via Sound as Language, with their collected EPs packaged together through Tiny Engines.

The Nashville-based songwriter announces that her new LP Escape Artist will arrive February 16.