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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Will Schube

Luke Temple’s third record under the pseudonym is out now via Western Vinyl.

The reveal is scheduled for tomorrow at 7:45 a.m. PT.

The 11-track vinyl comp will arrive on Record Store Day Black Friday.

The band’s first album for Third Man Records will arrive on March 1.

The prolific jazz experimentalist shares the unique sounds that inspired his latest collection of improvised sax recordings.

The new track featuring the band’s original lineup will arrive ahead of an EP scheduled for release in February, as well as their postponed reunion tour.

Headliners include Blink-182, SZA, Paramore, and more.

Their new album Utopian is out today via Antifragile Music.

The track is the first single from the garage-rock revivalists’ forthcoming album All Quiet on the Eastern Esplanade, due out on March 8.

Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, The Linda Lindas, The Hives, and more will join the tour.

Mackenzie Scott’s sixth album What an enormous room will arrive on January 26 via Merge.

The song was co-written with Courtney Barnett and produced by Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa.

The 52nd edition of the Danish non-profit event is scheduled to take place between June 29 and July 6.

The hyperpop pioneer merges worlds in fascinating, surprising ways on her sophomore LP, while still making sure her vision is honored throughout the sprawling project.

The duo’s fifth album, which features Christine and the Queens and production from Daniel Lopatin, will arrive on February 23 via Mom+Pop.

The third full-length from Will Taylor and Nicolas Hill arrives in the wake of their live performance of the album single “Tough Love” with Florence Pugh.

The track will arrive as a double A-side single with “Love Me Do” on November 2.

The duo’s new track is a rare instance in which Alex Tōth stars on lead vocals, with Kalmia Traver serving up harmonies.

“Matt is one of my favorite lyricists and singers of all time, plus he’s in one of the coolest bands ever,” said Wilderado’s Max Rainer.

The Flaming Lips at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, PA. August 5, 2023. Photo by David Iskra
Wayne Coyne’s band will be performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in full at the Shovels & Rope–curated event next April in South Carolina.