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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Mike LeSuer

The Remember Sports band leader’s debut solo album Eyes Like a Mirror will drop June 6 via Mtn. Laurel Recording Co.

Sabrina Teitelbaum’s follow-up to her self-titled 2023 debut is out now via Partisan.

A video for the track lands ahead of the LA band’s newly announced Forgive Me, EP, dropping June 27 via Sunday Drive Records.

A video for the title track from the filmmaker and songwriter’s second album arrives ahead of tomorrow’s release date via Bella Union.

It’s the second single and video from the experimental-pop artist’s debut album, Switcheroo, which arrives June 27 via Innovative Leisure.

The grooving psych-rock single marks the Brooklyn group’s first new music of 2025.

The Canadian indie rockers’ ninth studio album, Beauty’s Pride, will drop June 6 on Yep Roc.

The Grand Rapids indie rockers officially announce June 13 as the release date for their sophomore LP The Curse of Caring.

Featuring members of Empath and Perfect Pussy, the quintet’s inaugural release drops May 30 via Get Better Records.

In a Q&A, songwriter Natalie Lew discusses her upcoming debut Diving for a Prize, touring with Death Cab for Cutie and American Football, and entering abandoned houses.

The French post-rock band lyrically addresses the unthinkable progress and regression of our post-internet age via droning metal and modern-classical sound on their second LP.

Nigeria-born songwriter Uwade Akhere breaks down each track on her first album, out today via Ehiose Records/Thirty Tigers.

The San Diego–based rockers’ debut album Hang a Star will drop June 27 via à La Carte Records.

UK indie-folk duo Will Taylor and Nick Hill also announce that their new album Between You and Me is slated to arrive August 29 via Nettwerk.

The Cleveland trio share how the Book of Revelation, true crime, the loss of a childhood friend, and more helped shape their latest collection of pop-punk.

Mina Walker and Kelley Dugan are gearing up to release their third indie-pop LP, The Rubber Teeth Talk, via S-Curve Records.

With this pivot to hyper-pop club-rap, the NYC-based artist shares how fashion, TV, and the elderly (i.e. anyone older than him) have shaped his work.

The Australian punks share a gluttonous video for the latest track to arrive from their third LP, Chrome Dipped.

The track marks the artist’s first recording since releasing music as Suno Deko.

With Tunde Adebimpe releasing his long-anticipated debut album, and his band touring in support of the 20-year anniversary of their own, we look into some of the lesser-known work from the NYC art-rockers.