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

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.

Clipse, Let God Sort Em Out
Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.
Mike LeSuer

On January 24, Gary Hustwit’s regenerative Eno documentary will be livestreamed in several iterations along with Q&As with the film’s crew and other special guests.

Eternal Reverie, the producer’s first new LP since 2020, arrives March 7 via her own Young Art Records.

The seriously unserious UK rockers’ third album Boys These Days arrives May 23.

Chrystia Cabral’s newly announced album of the same name drops March 28 via Sacred Bones.

The experimental rap project shares a new single called “Change the Channel” ahead of the LP’s March 14 release via Sub Pop.

The year’s most discourse-worthy experimental metal records, according to our Senior Editor.

The Animal Collective co-founder’s first solo album in six years, Sinister Grift, is out February 28 via Domino.

The year’s most discourse-worthy records, according to our Senior Editor.

The doomy post-punk band’s fourth album Dweller lands January 10 via Three One G Records.

Led by current Built to Spill bassist Melanie Radford, the trio’s Petite Deaths EP is scheduled to arrive January 17 via Moon Ruins.

Reinterpreting 2022’s Profound Mysteries triple album, the new project aims to “underline the importance of critical thinking and curious pondering.”

“Dreamwalking” lands ahead of the collaborators’ ode to LA (and dance music), landing February 28 via Nettwerk.

It’s the second teaser from the Venezuelan post-hardcore group’s first English-language LP, Was It Medicine to You?, out January 9 via Born Losers.

The indie-pop quartet will release their new LP Shy at First on March 14.

The single lands ahead of the South African pop-rapper’s third LP Full Moon, dropping January 10 via Transgressive.

The songwriter’s first new material since her 2022 debut solo record is out via Last Gang/MNRK.

From Horsegirl and horsegiirL to TisaKorean and TiaCorine, here are some of 2024’s most indistinguishable sets of artist names.

In addition to a set of December headlining dates, the Chicago rockers will open for Taking Back Sunday and Sweet Pill this Saturday in New Jersey.

The two tracks were initially revealed to the Philly shoegazers’ Bandcamp followers earlier this month.

The Oakland dream-pop ensemble returns with a visual for the track from their album All Around Me, which was released back in January via Graveface.