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

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.

yeule, Evangelic Girl Is a Gun
The London-via-Singapore alt-pop songwriter continues to experiment on their fifth album, with the heaviest and weirdest moments also feeling the most authentic and energizing.
Mike LeSuer

The French post-rock quartet’s tech-wary second LP The Age of Ephemerality arrives April 25 via Pelagic Records.

With the Seattle art-rock project’s fourth album out now via Sub Pop, Jessica Dobson and Peter Mansen share how Gang of Four, The Walkmen, Wilco, and more shaped their vision.

While her new album Erotica Veronica itself also fits the bill, the songwriter shares a collection of stroll-friendly tunes that helped inspire her self-produced third LP.

The three-song release from Deafheaven’s Shiv Mehra and Marbled Eye’s Chris Natividad officially drops tomorrow via Born Losers.

Situationally bleaker yet more instrumentally upbeat, the futuristic post-metal outfit’s fourth album echoes the cultural boom that’s accompanied us to the doomsday present.

Along with the Didirri-directed video for the single, Wise is announcing a set of North American tour dates kicking off March 1 in Toronto.

The LA-via-Portland psych-metal group shares that the track will appear on a new EP titled If You Only Knew, expected out April 18 via Suicide Squeeze.

The smooth, guitar-forward jam marks the Dublin collective’s first single of 2025 via Future Gods.

The Montreal ensemble’s third LP Maintenant Jamais will drop March 28 via Bonsound.

The UK art-rockers will embark on their first set of dates in the US and Canada since 2020 beginning in late September.

It’s the second single from the newly minted Chicago-based experimental trio.

The March dates in LA will give way to appearances at Austin’s Sips & Sounds Festival and SLC’s Kilby Court Block Party.

The songwriter/actor shares an appropriately psychedelic new visual for the track from his recent album Tao Pop.

The NYC-based songwriter’s follow-up to last April’s self-titled debut officially drops tomorrow.

The Irish songwriter announces that she’ll release her second LP, Luster, on April 25 via 4AD.

The emcee-producer duo sets the stage for their forthcoming debut full-length Yearn IV with a playlist made up of their favorite music made by local Melbourne peers and beyond.

The track arrives ahead of the release of Younge’s third and final LP within his Something About April series, which lands April 18 via Linear Labs.

The Canadian songwriter’s second album, Progress Bakery, lands March 21 via Tin Angel Records.

The Austin-based songwriter shares a playlist of favorite music syncs within the films of her new single’s namesake.

Reflecting on coming up in the Pacific Northwest DIY scene, the GothBoiClique member’s new set of full-band rock songs is out now via K Records.