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

The run will kick off on November 2 in San Francisco.

The project will arrive on June 28 via Warner Records.

After releasing a pair of albums in the thick of the pandemic, the songwriter discusses how opting for fun over perfectionism made her collaborative new LP her most sonically complex to date.

The Portland group’s new album Broken Hearted Blue will arrive on June 14.

Margaux Sauvé and Louis-Étienne Santais share 13 tracks that inspired the “cry-on-the-dancefloor ambiance” and “dramatic opera” of their third LP.

The new single marks Liz Nistico’s first co-production with the project.

A video for the song arrives ahead of Time Is a Walnut, out on July 12 via Egghunt Records.

With the expanded collection arriving June 14 via ATO Records, the supergroup shares the previously unreleased track “Disappeared” as a teaser.

The fest formerly known as Sound on Sound is set for September 28 and 29 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Tom Krell shares how Arca, ANOHNI, and The Angelic Process inspired his first new release under the moniker in six years.

The Shellac and Big Black bandleader, who also worked with Nirvana, Low, Pixies, PJ Harvey, and more, died last night at the age of 61.

With the Lush vocalist’s memoir out today in the US, her new group is gearing up to tour with support from Lol Tolhurst x Budgie.

Also listing blink-182, Sturgill Simpson, and Khruangbin as headliners, the festival is schedule for the weekends of October 4-6 and 11-13 in Zilker Park.

The run will begin on September 25 in Santa Ana.

The full film soundtrack will arrive on May 10 via A24.

With brilliant wit and scathing social commentary, the Canadian emcee’s sixth album takes the form of dance music passionately pleading for fair wages, a just world, and mutual respect.

The full benefit release will arrive on June 21.

The power-pop group’s third album will arrive on August 16 via Lucky Number.

Droog has also teased a full-length album with the legendary producer.

The post-punk icon’s first new recording in nearly a decade was recorded for an ice cream commercial.