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

Neil Young, Coastal: The Soundtrack
Documenting his 2023 tour, Young’s umpteenth live album both simplifies the noise of Crazy Horse’s recent recordings and solidly renders familiar hits in a solo setting.

Adrian Younge, Something About April III
The third and final installment of his vintage psych-soul trilogy sees the songwriter bring the large history of Brazil into a tight narrative revolving around young love and class struggle.

Julien Baker & TORRES, Send a Prayer My Way
Baker and Mackenzie Scott’s debut pop-country collaboration is made up of a nuanced and emotionally kinetic set of hangdog story-songs that wear their nudie suits with pride.
Will Schube

The Injury Reserve/By Storm emcee talks stepping out on his own for his debut solo album and the 100-plus degree Arizona temperatures that helped inspire it.

The band formed just before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Portishead vocalist’s new album Lives Outgrown will arrive May 17 via Domino.

According to Erez, the track is a “musical middle finger.”

The actor-musician’s fourth LP is a carnival of some of the most wonderfully strange ideas to populate the relatively staid history of indie rock—even if he tends to get lost in his own whimsy.

The drummer’s new LP The Heartening will be released on April 29.

The songwriter’s new album will arrive on April 26 via Orindal Records.

The London-by-way-of-Vancouver songwriter’s third collection of indie pop is out now via Full Time Hobby.

The producer’s new album will arrive on June 7 via XL.

The jazz giant’s new album will arrive on May 3 via Young.

The sibling duo’s new album Cape Forestier will arrive on May 10.

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.