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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Will Schube

The duo’s new self-titled album will arrive on June 28 via In the Red Records.

The Seattle fest is set for Labor Day weekend.

All three performances at the historic LA venue are already sold out.

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.