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

The groundbreaking dream-pop vocalist passed away yesterday aged 65.

In addition to releasing the 7-inch, Jack Black and Kyle Gass are also launching a line of fiber bars.

Carl Shane’s noise-rock project’s first release with a new lineup will arrive August 5 via Exploding in Sound.

Ahead of the record’s September 9 release via Fire Records, Nicole Schneit reveals a video for a new track.

Channy Leaneagh breaks down each track on the Minneapolis collective’s experimental new LP, out now via Memphis Industries.

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

The West Coast punks’ new album Halfway to Eighty is out June 24 via Innovative Leisure.

The atmospheric Irish rockers’ new album arrives this week via Partisan Records.

The Panopoulos brothers’ first release since 2018’s God of the Wild officially drops tomorrow via Entheon Records.

The single arrives ahead of the avant-synthpop artist’s seventh album Moonrising, out July 8.

Mike Park compiles 19 songs he had on repeat while the ska supergroup’s latest release came together.

The Ava Luna songwriter’s debut solo album—co-produced with Nick Hakim and Tony Seltzer—arrives July 1.

Hand-picked to open a string of dates across the U.S. this summer, emcee kdeath shares how a decade-plus of grinding continues to lead to invigorating opportunities.

The Philly punks’ album officially drops this Wednesday via Topshelf Records.

With their debut album Deep in View dropping this Friday, the Ought offshoot shares 10 tracks that best exemplify a pristine guitar sound.

Melt Away, arriving July 22, will see M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel regrouping for the first time in six years.

Blue Broderick’s new LP Four Wheels and the Truth arrives June 10 via Lauren Records.

The LA-based songwriter’s EP of the same name will arrive August 26 via FADER Label.

The LA post-punk group comprised of members of Fury and Death Bells debuts a new track which officially drops tomorrow via Suicide Squeeze.

“In the Dark” arrives ahead of the new collaborative record from producer Nyles Miszcyzk, which arrives July 15 on We Are Time.