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

Their self-titled will drop July 10 via Sounds of Crenshaw/Empire.

The SF festival will make up for lost time with Tyler, the Creator, The 1975, and J Balvin already locked in.

Conor Oberst’s band performed their new song “Mariana Trench” from their newly announced album.

Mia Berrin threw together a playlist of songs that helped her own her queer identity.

The reflection on intrusive thoughts is the first single to precede the LP, out August 28.

The trio share fifteen tracks that inspire their vibrant take on punk.

All proceeds from the single benefit the Black Lives Matter movement.

It’s the second single from their debut album, American Advertisement, out July 10.

The R&B songwriter’s new record includes verses from Erykah Badu, Missy Elliott, and many more.

Interpol’s Paul Banks, The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick, and Bonny Light Horseman’s Josh Kaufman give us the details on their first LP together.

The South African rapper delivers an intense electro-pop single with a pretty straightforward message.

The Hawaii-born songwriter shares the latest from his debut EP, “Who Is Dovey?”

The Chicago songwriter will unveil the rest of “All That Has Come Apart / Once Did Not Exist” two songs at a time.

Chris Browder and Robin Dove share the latest from “Big Bad,” their first album in seven years.

The single arrives ahead of DVG’s “Breakthrough” EP, arriving this Friday via Suicide Squeeze.

The OutKast rapper shares thirteen new designs available for the next three days.

The Uruguayan songwriter shares some tracks that helped him write his new travelogue EP.

The Brooklyn songwriter pays homage to “The Sopranos” in the video for his latest single.

Organizers promise to instead coordinate a live stream event for Lolla weekend.

The jangly Melbourners share a handful of songs they had on repeat when penning their sophomore album.