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

$uicideboy$, 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.

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.
Mike LeSuer

Trevor Reilly and Nuno Pereira walk us through the East Coast punks’ latest LP track by track.

With his tour alongside Ho99o9 kicking off this Friday, the LA-via-Tucson artist continues to tease his new album slated for an April 29 release.

From Sly & the Family Stone to Thin Lizzy (and back to Sly & the Family Stone), the songwriter shares a playlist of tracks that influenced their latest record.

The Barcelona-based songwriter’s new album Strange Times Forever arrives June 3 via La Castanya.

The London rockers mash up Bosch with TikTok technology in the visual for their latest Pure Evil single.

The debut LP from Brandon Gallagher’s abrasive solo project arrives next Friday.

After a stint as Soft Plastics, the Vancouver group’s return LP as Frog Eyes arrives April 29.

The record was produced by Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst and features contributions from Hand Habits’ Meg Duffy and Great Grandpa’s Al Menne.

The months’ most discourse-worthy singles, according to our Senior Editor.

The collaborative track arrives ahead of Travis Egedy’s art show Ultraviolet Mythology opening in Chicago this weekend.

The Bloomington-based group ready their new LP Bunny for an April 22 release via Exploding in Sound.

Featuring guest verses from Open Mike Eagle, Myka 9, Sunspot Jonz, and many more, the album is out now on Fake Four.

The comedian/musician’s latest project is now through Hardly Art.

The Philly rockers’ sophomore album arrives April 29 via Lame-O Records.

The collaborative single arrives ahead of Ducks’ imminent U.S. tour.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs / photo by Joyce Jude Lee
Along with posting UK dates, the group hints at a follow-up to 2013’s Mosquito.

A video for the track arrives ahead of the London garage rockers’ EP Songs of Love, out this Friday.

The track comes from the Indianapolis rapper’s 2021 LP Cinephile.

With the help of Travis Barker, the industrial rap duo focus their feral energies into a surprisingly cohesive thesis statement.

The Chicago lo-fi rockers’ latest record Sheer will arrive May 13 via Flesh & Bone Records.