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

Sly & the Family Stone, The First Family: Live at Winchester Cathedral 1967
This unearthed 1967 live gig from Redwood City, California features raw, soulful R&B covers recorded with a roomful of memorable voices that audiences would soon grow to love.

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.
Will Schube

The famously melancholic songwriter reported that the song “puts a big fucking smile on [his] face.”

The track features a video directed by Andrew Thomas Huang.

The group’s record will arrive on July 12 via Leaving Records.

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.