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

Author Corey duBrowa—along with the help of Spoon’s Britt Daniel, Bratmobile’s Molly Neuman, and Eyelids’ Chris Slusarenko—highlights a handful of the EPs that make up the 200 titles the new book cites as classics.

Their October 4 performance at the Bowl will also feature Thundercat as a special guest.

The synthpop duo also reveals their itinerary for a fall North American tour.

The project of Status/Non-Status’s Adam Sturgeon and Zoon’s Daniel Monkman will release their second album, Shame, later this year.

The West Coast indie-pop duo’s latest collection of songs, the Universe Sometimes EP, is slated to be released June 28 via Hit the North Records.

The Chicago-based duo’s debut EP Universal Miracle Worker is out this Friday via Fire Talk imprint Angel Tapes.

The Chicago art-pop duo’s third album is out now via Joyful Noise.

Michael Hansford shares a handful of tracks that inspired the piano-centric direction his seventh album took.

The group led by Choir Boy’s Chaz Costello will release their self-titled third album on June 14 via Born Losers Records.

The London-based art-rock trio also shares a track-by-track breakdown of their debut EP This Old House, which is out today via AMF.

London-based songwriter Bilge Nur Yilmaz’s debut EP Ship Argo will be released on July 5.

Old Faithful, Sam Sodomsky’s latest collection of folk tunes, arrives May 31 via Ruination Records.

For the record’s anniversary, Brandon Curtis and Josh Garza walk us through the space-rock opus’ inception track by track.

Colin Newman and Malka Spigel embrace the American minimalist tradition on the latest cut from their forthcoming Nanocluster Vol. 2.

The GothBoiClique co-founder’s fourth solo album is out now via Epitaph Records.

Featuring members of Arab on Radar, Some Girls, and The Chinese Stars, the outfit’s fourth album Wilting arrives June 7 on Artoffact Records.

Ryan Savitski, Ross Thompson, and Colman O’Brien share 10 tracks that helped shape their vision for their evolved sophomore LP, out this week via Run for Cover.

The darkwave solo project of former Nothing drummer Kyle Kimball returns tomorrow with the A Silver Blade in the Shadow EP.

The Jimmy Whispers–directed clip lands with the news that the Oakland post-punk trio’s new album of the same name will land August 23 via Carpark Records.

Ahead of the release of their own freak-punk opus Hex Dealer, the New Yorkers help define the genre with 15 tracks by artists breaking ground in the weirdo rock scene.