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
Sword II, Electric Hour
The Atlanta trio’s strange, radical second album of emotionally charged psych-gaze sees them honing a sound that feels striking and approachable, easy to grasp but also subtly experimental.
Danny Brown, Stardust
Further exploring keening EDM and wobbly house music, the newly drug-free rapper still insists that the low-lit dance floors be filled, and that the sweaty energy be high and mighty.
The Mountain Goats, Through the Fire Across From Peter Balkan
Whether or not it represents John Darnielle’s earnest Broadway aspirations, the indie-folk band’s 23rd LP stands out for its amped-up orchestration and sweeping grandeur.
Will Schube
The emcee’s new album will arrive on April 19 via True Panther Sound.
Chris Martin reportedly helped the band’s frontman Joe Talbot train the AI for the visual.
The visual for the new track was directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry
The band has shared the project’s title track ahead of its April 19 release.
Written for pipe organ, choir, and brass quintet, the Stockholm-based minimalist’s latest collection still melds fluidly into a cohesive body of work conjuring visceral images of winter.
The artist’s fourth LP will arrive on April 5 via Sacred Bones.
Vocalist Julie Dawson shares how Madra—the Galway-based alt-rock quartet’s debut album—is a testament to their continued growth.
The single marks the songwriter’s first original music since 2022’s Mellow Moon LP.
Jumping from jazz-leaning grooves to smoky blues to fried country funk, the Omaha-based songwriter’s self-titled album with his backing band is at its best when it takes risks.
The group has shared a trailer for their first full-length since 2019’s Father of the Bride, which will arrive on April 5.
The new project is set to arrive on March 15 via Interscope Records.
Underdressed at the Symphony is set to arrive March 1 via Secretly Canadian.
The track will be featured on a deluxe edition of Polachek’s Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.
We last heard from the singer and actor when her 2018 LP Yesterday Was Forever coincided with a role in the TV series GLOW.
The album from the Portishead icon will arrive on May 17 via Domino Records.
Rollie Pemberton’s new album will arrive on April 19 via MNRK Music.
“Burial Ground,” the Portland group’s first new material since their 2018 I’ll Be Your Girl LP, features The Shins’ James Mercer on vocals.
Other artists set for the season include Jason Isbell, Sharon Van Etten, The Roots, Sylvan Esso, and Laufey.
The latest project from the TDE artist will arrive on March 1.
Lana Del Rey
The Jack Antonoff–produced project is set to arrive in September.
