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

Hotline TNT, Raspberry Moon
Will Anderson’s debut with a full band exhibits his fondness for crunchy shoegaze while incorporating a stripped-down, folk-referencing sound tinged with melancholic guitar.

Yaya Bey, Do It Afraid
In its 18 brief, blipping songs, the Brooklyn neo-soul artist’s latest venture into old-school rap, acid jazz, soca, and trip-dub is closer to a groove mixtape than a cohesive album.

HAIM, I Quit
The sister trio’s fourth full-length is a summer breakup concept record that’s intimate, powerful, and too scattered within its catharsis.
Will Schube

The album will also feature tracks with Tame Impala, Thundercat, and Connan Mockasin.

Featuring new remixes from DJ Python and Real Lies, the 2023 release marked the first collaboration from Temple of Angels’ Bre Morell and Weekend’s Shaun Durkan.

The artist’s new album Rio Bravo will arrive on March 29 via La Honda Records.

The film OST will arrive on May 10 via A24.

The annual fest is set for July 19 through 21 in Chicago.

Katie Crutchfield’s new album Tigers Blood will arrive March 22 via ANTI-.

After revealing their plans to break up back in January, the band has added additional stops to their farewell tour.

The track was featured on Sampha’s “Wave Theory” radio show.

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.