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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Mike LeSuer

The Nashville-based trio’s first single since 2023’s Arrival lands ahead of their US tour with Grivo kicking off this Friday.

Both bands are set to perform in LA on September 25 and 26.

The Lush vocalist—along with bandmates Ollie Cherer and Kevin McKillop—share how Gang of Four, Arvo Pärt, The Monkees, and more shaped the sounds of their debut album.

Isabel Olive’s maiden release for her newly formed Teleférico Records officially drops tomorrow.

John Dwyer’s new project co-founded by Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa will release their self-titled debut on April 18 via Deathgod.

The Virginia-based quartet announces that their self-released new album Almost Static will drop May 30, followed by a string of live dates opening for Turnover.

The pulsing track arrives ahead of David Zbirka’s new album Gutter Angel, which is out April 18 via Music Website.

The experimental rap trio shares how William Gibson (obviously), hacktivism, and computer-generated novelty posters from the ’90s helped shape the record’s concept.

The Brooklyn noise-pop band’s debut album Moths Strapped to Each Other’s Backs will arrive on April 11 via Julia’s War.

Patience, Moonbeam, the band’s first record in over five years, is out this Friday via Run for Cover.

With the Norwegian nu-disco queen’s album Dance Therapy out now via Mute, Nora Schjelderup introduces us to some of the global figures who helped pave the way for her.

The songwriter shares how Tarkovsky, greenspace, and pizza helped shape the record’s 11 songs.

The LA band’s debut EP Just Fantasy drops April 25 via Angel Tapes.

The Swedish noise-pop experimentalist’s second LP explores a considerably wider array of sounds across its 19 tracks, all through cleaner production.

Secretly Canadian’s newest signee will release his debut album Before You Go on May 9.

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.