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

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.

Sunflower Bean, Mortal Primetime
The New York trio’s first self-produced album has a smooth, consistent, quietly confident sound quality that reflects the elegance that’s always been at their core.

BRUIT ≤, The Age of Ephemerality
The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.
Mike LeSuer

The masked electronic musician also announces their debut album ABOMINATION, which arrives April 12 via Heavenly Recordings.

Produced by Gleemer’s Corey Coffman, the Minneapolis shoegazers’ new record will arrive February 16 via New Morality Zine.

The latest single from Jessi Zazu’s posthumous release with bandmate Linwood Regensburg could very well be the first track to feature both 12-string guitar and propane tank.

The electronic duo’s new album Mother Engine arrives February 9 via Dots Per Inch.

The buzzy South Londoners share their second single since signing to Domino last year.

Justin Pearson’s synthpunk outfit will release their second LP Fiction Prediction on February 9 via Three One G Records.

The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.

The Stockholm-based duo’s sophomore record will arrive March 8 via PNKSLM.

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.