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

Devendra Banhart, Cripple Crow [20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]
Further extending the LP’s dimensions, this reissue adds a third disc of outtakes, B-sides, and demos that only serve to fortify the project’s sonic asymmetry and emotional, quixotic lyricism.

Die Spitz, Something to Consume
With their Will Yip–produced debut, the Austin punk quartet has something to say about postmodern society in 11 metal-fusion tracks ripe with political turmoil and skatepark angst.

Shame, Cutthroat
The UK rockers don’t mince words on their fourth studio album, pairing their infectious proto-punk grooves with nakedly hedonistic lyrics.
Will Schube

The duo’s new album, Cellophane Memories, is set to arrive on August 2 via Sacred Bones.

The new release features tracks recorded during their sessions for last year’s The Twits LP.

Greg Gonzalez will share his new album X’s on July 12.

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.