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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
Will Schube

Sophie Allison has been performing the song on her stripped-back solo tour.

Sarah Tudzin will release her third album on August 23 via Hopeless Records.

The new record will arrive on September 20 via Neon Gold/Atlantic.

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.