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

Matmos, Metallic Life Review
Composed entirely from the vibrations of metal objects, the compact experimental duo’s new anticapitalist allegory is as unique a prospect as a fingerprint.

Turnstile, Never Enough
The Baltimore hardcore collective distills and expands the essence of their breakout 2021 LP, leaning into the tension between explosiveness and a resulting uneasy stillness.

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.
Mike LeSuer

Adam McIlwee discusses collaborating with Darcy Baylis, Ben Greenberg, and Zola Jesus as he breaks down each song on the new album, out now via Run for Cover.

It’s the second taste of Inner Smile, the forthcoming LP from the Swiss rockers.

The group’s fourth album is slated for release on September 1 via Wax Nine.

Ting Mong, the Cambodian-pop outfit’s first album in eight years, is out September 15.

Emi Night returns with their first new single in six years.

With his new LP Animals out now via Warp Records, the rapper and percussionist shares his favorite tracks by artists on the cutting edge of the jazz tradition.

With the Chicago post-punks’ new album Freak Frequency out now, vocalist Greg Obis shares a few highlights from the label he co-runs with Deeper’s Kevin Fairbairn.

The companion piece to last year’s This Is a Photograph is out now via Dead Oceans.

The single arrives ahead of Julian Casablancas’ outfit’s upcoming residency at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall.

The track arrives alongside word of a new LP Ooh Rap I Ya that will drop July 28 via 100% Electronica.

The self-directed visual enhances the cyberpunk universe of the LA musician’s project.

Hear an early stream of the digital-hardcore duo’s latest release, officially dropping this Friday via Ramp Local.

Cult actor James Duval stars in the AOR-inspired clip for the title track from the duo’s new LP arriving June 30 via Dais Records.

The LA trio’s grungy new track arrives ahead of their new album of the same name dropping June 30 via Get Better Records.

It’s the latest guest-filled single from the jazz-rapper’s new LP Animals, arriving this Friday via Warp.

On the verge of touring his twelfth LP Elocution Prattle, Eric Elbogen crafts a tracklist that reflects the music he references before, during, and after making an album.

Sam Bielanski and Matty Morand take us through the influences on their sophomore LP, ranging from The Sopranos and The Velveteen Rabbit to Third Eye Blind and RHCP.

The comedian and musician discusses his debut record under the moniker and shares some of his recent favorite discoveries on the music distribution platform.

Affirming her new LP The Answer Is Always Yes, the Australian songwriter shares 12 of her favorite yay-saying tracks.

The SoCal folk-rock collective announce new LP Swinging Stars, out August 18 on Innovative Leisure.