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

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.
Mike LeSuer

The single lands ahead of the group’s new Marina Abramović–featuring album Emerald Sea, out June 17 on Joyful Noise.

The 16-and-a-half-minute epic arrives ahead of A Murmur, Boundless To The East, out June 10 via Mothland.

A slo-mo video for the track arrives ahead of the Australian songwriter’s new album ALTAR.

The latest from Zen Zsigo’s ambient project is a visceral examination of the confused mental state between sleep and consciousness.

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.