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

Fuck Money, Fuck Money
Leading with distortion and chaos, the Austin group’s debut is a 22-minute cataclysm of hardcore punk and harsh noise that distills the anti-capitalist ethos of their moniker.

Dijon, Baby
On the follow-up to his 2021 debut, Dijon Duenas lays glitchy, psychedelic textures atop his familiar alt-R&B sound to evoke a fractured internet-like aesthetic that’s often mesmerizing.

Rich Brian, Where Is My Head?
The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.
Will Schube

The re-release of Mike Hadreas’ third album will arrive on September 20 via Matador Records.

With his cohesive new LP out now, Uncle Neph shares how artists ranging from Tony Yayo to Johnnie Taylor to Mary J. Blige influenced his sound.

The follow-up to the DMV rapper’s To What End LP from last year is out today via Outer Note.

The London-based artist’s new project will arrive on June 20 via Young Records.

The Swedish duo comprised of members of Peter Bjorn and John and Caesars formerly performed under the name Smile.

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.