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
Alice Phoebe Lou, Oblivion
The South African indie-folk songwriter’s sixth album presents her at her most intimate and creative—yet still unknowable—as she traces the lines of isolation and transition.
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82 [Expanded Edition]
With the oft-rumored electric version of Bruce’s unhappiest album as its centerpiece, this five-disc collection helps to inform the maudlin medicine that fills the songwriter’s new biopic.
The Lemonheads, Love Chant
Evan Dando finds a middle ground between nostalgia and the present with his grunge-pop outfit’s latest LP, which isn’t any less messily melancholic than the project’s early-’90s peak.
Will Schube
The collection includes the artist’s first Spanish language cut.
Spanning Southern rap tracks from the pre- and post-internet eras and beyond, the plugg innovator shares 17 tracks that inspired his new album.
Damon McMahon will release Death Jokes on May 10 via Sub Pop.
The band’s 18th album will arrive on August 30.
The West Coast Get Down leader’s new album will arrive on May 3.
Steven Raekwon Reynolds’s sophomore album is out May 3 via Father/Daughter Records.
The run of North American shows will begin on September 25 in Vancouver, while the deluxe reissue—featuring assorted rarities—will land March 15.
The new track will arrive on March 21, with the album set to drop on May 24 via Atlantic Records.
Iris James Garrison’s new album is set to arrive on June 7 via Bayonet.
The West Coast rap vet’s daring, weird, and thrilling sixth LP indicates that sometimes all one needs to get better is maturity, some introspection, and enough time away to reset and begin again.
Amplified by booming bass and clever samples from the Chicago-based producer, the former Das Racist emcee’s first record in nine years is an unabashed celebration of rap.
Father John Misty, Madi Diaz, Lord Huron, and Nickel Creek will open select dates.
The track follows Alicia Bognanno’s 2023 LP Lucky for You.
Featuring contributions from Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon, Stella Mogzawa, and more, the new album from Annie Clark will arrive on April 26 via Virgin Music Group.
The track is the Madrid duo’s first new single in over four years.
The project will arrive on May 3 via Matador Records.
The track comes alongside a nearly nine minute video.
The project from the former Injury Reserve star will arrive on April 5.
The French art-pop icon discusses Stereolab’s reunion, her new solo record, and “cleaning up the unacceptable.”
The track’s video serves as the first chapter of a full “album film” which will arrive with the project slated for a May 31 release via Natasha Khan’s new label home, Mercury KX.
