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

Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

Adrian Younge, Something About April III
The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

Julien Baker & TORRES, Send a Prayer My Way
Baker and Mackenzie Scott’s debut pop-country collaboration is made up of a nuanced and emotionally kinetic set of hangdog story-songs that wear their nudie suits with pride.
Mischa Pearlman

The Phoenix-based songwriter puts her songwriting personality front and center on her sophomore record, once again writing about heartache for all the right reasons.

The NOFX vocalist previews his surprisingly beautiful collection of string arrangements in collaboration with Baz the Frenchman before the LP officially drops this Friday.

With new reissues of Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs, and Franks Wild Years out now, we revisit the songwriting icon’s mid-career run when he leaned into his eccentricities—and changed the course of his career as a result.

Former Cymbals Eat Guitars vocalist Joseph D’Agostino’s second album with the project arrives November 3 via Get Better Records (and Tough Love Recs in the UK).

Charlotte McCaslin goes deep on a record about coming to terms with being a living thing in a dying world.

Exasperation drummer Dave Mead’s debut solo LP Speaking Terms will arrive October 10.

Murray Macleod takes us track by track through the Brighton punks’ journey of self-rediscovery, which is out now via UNFD.

The Boston-based quartet’s debut album I Think About It All the Time lands October 13 via Equal Vision Records.

On their first record in 11 years, the Swedish garage-rock revivalists have as much gusto, energy, and attitude as they did on their 1997 debut.

Takiaya Reed discusses how the joy of creation adds a personal layer to the anti-colonialist drone-metal project’s mission statement.

The track arrives ahead of the Melbourne punks’ fifth LP Endless, out October 20 via Fat Wreck Chords.

The track was recorded during the same sessions as last year’s White Tiger LP.

Christopher Pappas’ new collection of songs How Do I Feel? arrives September 1 via Little Record Company.

Executed with precision and grace, the group’s first release in over a decade blends the darkly political with the profoundly personal.

Militarie Gun at Stereogum Range Life party at Cheer Up Charlie’s
Ian Shelton discusses the various roads which led to the LA punks’ debut LP, Life Under the Gun.

The Phoenix folk-punks’ eighth LP feels more post-/mid-apocalyptic than foreshadowing of it while maintaining the band’s wonderful mix of pathos and humor.

The Canadian noise-punks’ fourth record is out now via Dine Alone Records.

The duo’s second album Bound to Be will arrive June 23.

Ceschi Ramos, Get Dead’s Sam King, and NOFX’s Fat Mike discuss their debut album This Is Crime Wave, which draws from their own experiences in the criminal justice system—and a sitcom-like housing situation.

The Santa Barbara by way of Philly songwriter takes us through his “post-apocalyptic Americana” opus track by track.