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
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Will Schube
The band additionally featuring MJ Lenderman and Brad Cook dropped their self-titled album last Friday via ANTI- Records.
The original track was featured on Chrystia Cabral’s LP Portrait of My Heart released back in March.
Redux will feature covers of songs from James Brown and Prince.
The saxophonist and songwriter discusses ideas of resignation and action explored on his latest release, which took cues from artists ranging from Soft Machine to Prince to Cannibal Ox.
Sierra Ferrell, Tobias Rahim, Pa Salieu, Adrian Quesada, and Folk Bitch Trio are also among the first wave of artists announced for the festival, which is set for June 27 – July 4 in Denmark.
The video was directed by Leonn Ward and shot by Poor Things cinematographer Robbie Ryan.
Out today, the nine-track release was written and recorded in his car over the course of a week.
The songwriter received a Music Innovator award in New York on Wednesday.
The opening reception is set for November 15 in Los Angeles.
The Swedish songwriter’s new album Iconoclasts will arrive this Friday.
Sage Elsesser’s forthcoming album will arrive on November 11.
The show, which will also feature Mandy Moore, Jackson Browne, Stephen Stills, and Brad Paisley, is set for January 7 in Pasadena.
The Chicago band’s Chris Walla co-produced sixth album will arrive on February 6 via new label home New West Records.
The song marks the Scottish band’s first new release in seven years.
The album benefitting immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers—which also features cuts from Daniel Lopatin, Dirty Projectors, and Benjamin Booker—will be released on December 5.
Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin Pussy, and Gouge Away will support the band on the set of North American dates kicking off in August.
The track was originally recorded during the sessions for 2023’s Lahai LP.
The songwriter’s LP will arrive on February 13 via AWAL.
Scott Hansen’s last project, Infinite Health, arrived in 2024.
The track was originally featured on SASAMI’s Blood on the Silver Screen LP released back in March.
