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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Will Schube

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.

The band took over Brooklyn’s Murmrr Theatre for a sold-out four-night run in late October last year.