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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Mike LeSuer

The Oakland group tackles themes of grief and recovery on their second album Joy Coming Down, arriving May 2 via Tiny Engines.

George Lewis’ stripped-back sixth album is out now via Dom Recs.

The Brooklyn-based post-punks share how everything from True Detective’s first season to medical research on reincarnation helped shape their fifth album.

Directed by the band’s own Danny Lee Blackwell, the clip lands ahead of a new 7-inch single arriving on April 11 via Suicide Squeeze.

The LA punks’ debut album Niis World comes out March 28 via Get Better Records.

The eerie track lands ahead of the New Orleans duo’s sophomore album Like Cartoon Vampires, out April 18 via Winspear.

The LA doomgaze band is touring the Southwest later this month, with a set of Pacific Northwest dates to follow.

Charlotte Weinman’s debut single lands ahead of her March 12 show at NYC’s Night Club 101 alongside Nautics and S.C.A.B.

The Michigan dream-pop ensemble’s fourth album Moonbow is out now via Graveface.

The folk-punks’ follow-up to their 2019 debut is out now via Wax Bodega.

The new-wave duo’s fourth album A Flame in the Dark lands March 28 via Born Losers.

The NYC-based band’s new collaboration with Told Slant’s Felix Walworth arrives with a set of tour dates alongside villagerrr.

Arriving April 4 via Suicide Squeeze, the psychedelic garage-rockers’ third album DOGGOD promises to open up the trio’s sound.

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.