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
The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Mike LeSuer
The vaporwave trio’s latest collection of songs drops July 31 via—where else—100% Electronica.
All funds from the 37-track Bandcamp-only collection benefit The Trevor Project.
The track arrives ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s buzzing album Space Ghost, out July 8 via Lame-O.
The Winnipeg-based dream pop group’s Jay Som co-produced third album Someday Is Today arrives September 2 via Kanine Records.
Chris Adams walks us through a selection of tracks that helped shape his recent shapeshifting LP.
Her sophomore album How to Grow a Sunflower Underwater is out July 22 via Nettwerk.
The Tristan Jemsek–led project will release their latest album Believe This Rain at the end of the summer.
The LA-based rapper talks how growing up in Abilene shaped his debut album with Polyvinyl Records.
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.
