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

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.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.
Will Schube

The collection is set to arrive this Friday via Red Hot.

The twelfth album from Sarah Cracknell, Bob Stanley, and Pete Wiggs will arrive on December 13 via Heavenly Recordings.

The new single follows Zach Condon’s 2023 LP Hadsel, and arrives ahead of a few full-band live dates in Europe and the UK in May.

Life is Beautiful Festival, September 27-28 2024, Valerie Magan
Other acts set to perform at the non-profit Phoenix event include Sylvan Esso, Alvvays, and BADBADNOTGOOD.

Other artists set for the Bay Area bash include Mercury Rev, Dawn Richard & Spencer Zahn, and Les Savy Fav.

The new album is set to arrive on February 21 via New West Records.

Already announced artists include Waxahatchee, ANOHNI, and Antipop Consortium.

The first volume of the innovative release will arrive on December 6 via the artist’s own somethingscosmic label.

The track features production from fellow 100Fold collective member paper gem.

The film will arrive in theaters on November 20 via Oscilloscope.

The new single from the expanded edition of the mixtape features Bktherula and Lazer Dim 700.

The band will also release limited edition physical versions of Discovery in honor of the film’s 4K remastering.

Jason Dungan’s new mini-album Weft will arrive on January 17.

The Monterrey festival is scheduled for the weekend of April 4.

Vicious Creature will arrive December 6 via Island Records.

His band recently announced their reunion, in addition to a 20th-anniversary reissue of Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes.

The run begins on April 21 in SLC and wraps up on May 16 in NYC.

Produced by Danger Mouse, the songwriter’s latest album Small Changes is out November 22 via Geffen.

The alt-pop duo of Zoë Bleu and Reggie Debris plans to release their debut album in 2025.

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The festival will take place the weekend of June 5 in Barcelona.