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

Deftones, private music
Each member’s strengths are on high alert, making the alt-metal band’s thrashing and highly imaginative 10th album a thing of brutal beauty.

Mac DeMarco, Guitar
The songwriter’s intimately recorded latest LP is a simple affair where humor and bluntness roam freely and his typical experimentation hardly obscures the beauty of his songwriting craft.

Quadeca, Vanisher, Horizon Scraper
The YouTuber-turned-rapper’s production style reaches a new zenith, with the LP’s intensity perfectly complementing Benjamin Lasky’s verses exploring obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.
Will Schube

The star-studded record—also including Faye Webster, The War on Drugs, and Julia Jacklin, among others—will arrive on June 21.

Balancing airy synths and bubbling low-end, the LA-based experimentalist reflects on the highs and lows of the human experience on her latest complex project.

The alt-pop singer’s new album Big Ideas will arrive July 12 via Island Records

It was recently announced that the Norwegian artist will take the stage at Glastonbury this summer, in addition to a handful of other international festival appearances.

The American Association of Independent Music, Inc. has also nominated Wednesday, L’Rain, and more.

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.