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

The mysterious audio/visual noise project’s self-titled release lands this Friday via Sleeping Giant Glossolalia.

The Brooklyn punk trio will release a new EP titled Has Reservations early next year.

The UK-based songwriter’s forthcoming El Michels Affair–produced LP Zero Grace lands February 23 through Big Crown Records.

The conversation between the two titans of dad energy premiered this morning on the band’s YouTube page.

On the heels of their new Just a Dirtbag Christmas EP, the power-pop hitmakers share what they’ll be listening to this holiday season.

The track marks the NYC shoegaze group’s debut recording for Kanine Records.

The Brooklyn-based indie-rock collective’s fifth full-length, Arms, will arrive on February 16 via Better Company Records.

The Brooklyn group’s upcoming Spit EP arrives February 6 via Candlepin Records.

The track meanwhile looks ahead to 2024 when the Canadian neo-psych rockers will release their latest LP, Back Into the Dream.

Focused on goth and new wave bands, the event will return to Pasadena on May 11.

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.