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

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

Lady Gaga, Mayhem
The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.

Bob Mould, Here We Go Crazy
Explicitly pitched as a response to the unrest of early 2025, the former Hüsker Dü leader’s first album in five years continues to confidently summon instant-earworm hooks and visceral thrills.
Mike LeSuer

The song appears on the Columbus-based alt-country group’s debut full-length of the same name, out now via Darling Records.

The Melbourne-based songwriter channels her inner Duderino on the latest cut from her forthcoming Summer of Love LP.

It’s the title track and lead single from Alyssa Midcalf’s EP of the same name, dropping June 6 via Born Losers.

The Minnesota’s indie-pop duo’s self-titled fourth album is out this Friday via Don Giovanni.

Featuring unconventional time signatures and recording methods, the eerie track lands ahead of the noise-rock duo’s second LP, Mirror.

Produced and co-written by FINNEAS, the record will be out May 17 via Darkroom/Interscope.

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?