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

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.
Will Schube

The emcee-producer pairing’s debut collaboration drops this Friday via Platoon.

The alt-R&B artist is set to release Ten Fold on May 10.

The expletive-laden new album will arrive on July 19 via Republic Records.

The songwriter’s new album will arrive on June 28 via Western Vinyl.

Available on vinyl for the first time since its 2002 release, this reissue invites us to reconsider the merits of the tracklist supporting the underground emcee’s breakout single.

The FLOODfest 2024 alumni’s new album will arrive this Friday via Sacred Bones.

The track will be featured on the soul legend’s new LP, Blackgrass: From West Virginia to 125th Street.

Roberto Carlos Lange shares how a move to North Carolina helped him break from his prior discography—while still staying moored to his established musical persona.

The Londoner’s Jadu Heart–assisted new record is out now via Secretly Canadian.

Annie Clark also revealed that Spoon, Yves Tumor, Eartheater, Dorian Electra, and Momma will all join her on select dates for the first leg of her All Born Screaming North American tour.

The new covers album will be released via A24 Music (what don’t those folks do?!).

The track comes with a visualizer starring rapper Despot.

The artist’s new album will arrive on April 5 via City Slang.

The iconic songwriter and collaborator will share his new album on June 14.

The track is out now via Partisan Records.

The group’s latest project will arrive on May 3 via Matador Records.

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.