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

Matmos, Metallic Life Review
Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

Turnstile, Never Enough
The Baltimore hardcore collective distills and expands the essence of their breakout 2021 LP, leaning into the tension between explosiveness and a resulting uneasy stillness.

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.
Mike LeSuer

Lullabies for Dogs, the folk-punks’ first album in over five years, will drop March 7 via Wax Bodega.

Norwegian synth-pop songwriter Nora Schjelderup will release her second album, Dance Therapy, on March 21 via Mute Records.

The collection, aptly titled The Villagers Companion, arrives February 21 and will also feature covers of John Prine and Mecca Normal tracks.

Ironically, the Vancouver collective feels rejuvenated on the first track to be shared from their latest record, The Open Up.

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.