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

Dijon, Baby
On the follow-up to his 2021 debut, Dijon Duenas lays glitchy, psychedelic textures atop his familiar alt-R&B sound to evoke a fractured internet-like aesthetic that’s often mesmerizing.

Rich Brian, Where Is My Head?
The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.
Mike LeSuer

The Long Island group’s second album Permanent Repeat is set to arrive July 12 via Counter Intuitive Records.

The Brooklyn group’s debut album Couldn’t Save Us From My Gut is out August 16 via Easy Does It Records.

Out now via Suicide Squeeze, the collaboration takes on the lonelier aspects of touring.

The London art-punk trio’s third full-length is out now via Rough Trade.

It’s the second single to be released ahead of the debut EP by the new project featuring members of From Indian Lakes and Rx Bandits.

The band’s follow-up to last August’s Intercepted Message will arrive August 9 via Castle Face.

The band shares how Bad Brains, Squarepusher, NIN, and more helped shape their third LP, arriving this week via Relapse.

The brutal-prog duo’s synth-focused fourth album Vulture lands June 21 via Nefarious Industries.

The latest from Maddie Kerr arrives a day before their tour of the Eastern US.

The producer enlists emcees Ceschi and Sam King for the first single ahead of his new LP Cold, Cold World, out September 6 on Fake Four.

It’s the Oakland duo’s second single this year after announcing their signing to Grand Jury Music with the release of “fair” back in April.

Esteban Flores shares how Fontaines D.C., Kings of Leon, and more inspired his forthcoming sophomore EP.

The recently revived Midwest emo outfit gets experimental on the latest single from their new album Worldviews, out June 14 via Tiny Engines.

The track appeared on Kimiyo, the Canadian post-rock composer’s collaborative LP with Japanese vocalist Momoka Tobari released earlier this year.

James Murphy’s band will be playing eight shows between Halloween and November 10 at the Shrine Expo Hall and Hollywood Palladium.

With her debut album out now via Jagjaguwar, the indie-folk songwriter shares how Cindy Lee, The Everly Brothers, The Residents, and more inspire her.

The Philly-based duo featuring Alex G’s live drummer will release their second full-length on September 13 via Born Losers Records.

Before the band takes the stage on Saturday night in Barcelona, all four members share a handful of tracks that get them hyped.

The Phoenix trio announce their signing to [PIAS]/Different Recordings with the upbeat single.

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.