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

Carolyn Fahrner’s self-released Somehow I Go in Circles All the Time EP will drop on May 16.

Takiaya Reed walks us through her new set of instrumental drone-metal tracks aiming to combat colonialist and genocidal ideology.

The track comes from the band’s new EP of the same name, which drops today via Graveface Records.

Garrett Burke invites listeners to Gloorp it up next week when his sophomore album sees a release via Jolt Music.

WHEN THE FLOWERS BLOOM, the LA-based artist’s debut for Stones Throw Records, is out May 30.

The songwriter and member of Sharon Van Etten’s Attachment Theory band will release her new solo album Autostatic! on May 23 via Switch Hit Records.

The Taos–based duo’s new collection of droning dream-pop Unknown Beyond will land later this year via Labrador Records.

The alt-rap duo announce that the track will appear on a new mixtape titled Formless, set to arrive May 23 via Heavenly Recordings.

The track will appear on the songwriter’s long-teased album arriving later this year via Interscope.

Alex Sauser-Monnig shares how everyone from Robyn to John Lurie inspired the whimsy and mystery of their second album, which drops this week via Psychic Hotline.

A video for the single lands ahead of the band’s new EP If I’m Being Honest, which drops later this year via Easy Does It Records.

With his debut EP arriving this week, the British-Colombian songwriter shares how the nostalgia and atmospherics of Frank Ocean, Radiohead, Prince, and more helped shape his sound.

The Singaporean songwriter shares how Carl Jung, life on a remote island, and cold showers helped define the concept for her second album.

The Utah-based artist shares how Blondie, Ratatat, Grimes, and more helped shape this collection, out now via Winspear.

The sophisti-pop songwriter’s follow-up to 2022’s Shine will arrive on June 27 via Born Losers Records.

The Naked and Famous vocalist’s debut solo album Slow Crush is out tomorrow via Nettwerk.

The instrumental folk duo’s Dan Auerbach–produced debut album Harsh & Exciting will arrive on May 30 via Easy Eye Sound.

Return to Forever, the Richmond rapper’s new album produced by Profound79, is out now.

The big single serves as the fourth big taste of the Chicago-based trio’s big new album Big Symmetry, out May 2 via Storm Chasers LTD and Asian Man.

The two-LP package will feature seven bonus tracks and a 40-page booklet of collages, family photos, sketches, and more.