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

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.

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.
Mike LeSuer

Timbaland will also be joining for Missy’s first-ever set of headlining dates, kicking off July 4 in Vancouver.

The West Coast slacker-rockers’ latest album Better Late Than Never hits shelves this Friday.

The LA-based alt-R&B songwriter’s second album Give a Damn lands May 10 via Mac DeMarco’s label.

The LA-based alt-rock trio follow up their 2021 Asymmetry EP with their first release for Hit the North Records, out now.

Chicago-based songwriter Jessica Viscius’s raw sophomore album One Million Love Songs is out now via Fire Talk.

The Chicago-based sibling duo’s second EP officially lands tomorrow.

The indietronica experimentalists’ return with their first album in a decade, landing May 31 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co.

The Austin-based post-metal trio’s new album From the Other Side of the Mirror arrives April 26 via Pelagic.

The track will appear on Brooklyn-based songwriter Margaux Bouchegnies’ newly announced debut album Inside the Marble, arriving June 7 on Massif Records.

Following last month’s release of Parallel Realms, the indietronica stalwarts present a mix of their recent favorite dance tracks.

Fronted by Palestinian-American vocalist Maha Shami, and rounded out by members of Majority Rule and Haram, the project’s third LP is out now via Iodine Recordings.

Ahead of the May 24 release of his new LP Terra Incognita, Collin Desha will hit the road alongside Ra Ra Riot and Meltt.

The Cincinnati-based art-rock quartet’s new Ribbon EP will arrive in full on April 12.

Ahead of his new album What’s for Breakfast?, the LA-based indie-pop figure answers a more pressing question for us: Where can I get a good country-fried steak near me?

The album-length collaboration between the Japanese modern-classical composer and the Australian ambient artist arrives May 31 via Temporary Residence Ltd.

The LA group recreates the opening sequence from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation in the video for the first single from the LP out April 19 via Loma Vista.

Former THICK drummer Shari Page reminds us not to fear power chords on the new garage-punk tune.

The digital edition featuring remixes from the likes of Dan the Automator and MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden arrives April 5, followed by a new vinyl pressing out May 17.

The Austin dream-pop collective’s third album Sugarcoat is out May 3 via Kanine Records.

It’s the first single from Jackson Katz’s newly announced Pure Gluttony LP, which arrives May 10 via Danger Collective.