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

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.
Mike LeSuer

Alt-country songwriter Ryan Gustafson also answers a few questions ahead of tomorrow’s release of the first installment of his double album via Psychic Hotline.

The Chicago fest is moving further south to the village of Bridgeview’s SeatGeek Stadium this year.

Returning today with his first new music since his cult-classic 2013 debut melanchole, Daniel Johann Lines shares a few tracks he’s had on repeat.

The Baltimore hardcore-punks will release the tight collection of songs on July 12 via Get Better Records.

The track lands ahead of Peter Sagar’s second LP of 2024, Horsie, while the visual completes his narrative trilogy of music videos illustrating the otherworldliness of touring.

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.