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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Will Schube

Both deeply intimate and boldly cosmic, the Chicago-based guitarist’s latest for Drag City is out now.

Claire Cottrill’s follow-up to 2021’s Sling is set to arrive on July 12.

…though “maybe” might be a little too hopeful for a reunion tour.

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.