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

Kronos Quartet + Mary Kouyoumdjian, Witness
Recorded in remembrance of the victims of the Armenian genocide, the quartet’s work with the documentarian-composer is at turns gorgeous, brutal, and awe-stricken.

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.
Will Schube

Set for January 12 at Basement East, the show will also feature Snõõper, Inner Peace, and Second Spirit, and aims to raise funds for a local food bank and housing and racial justice orgs.

Oslo-based producer Kent Tonning shares how Doss, The Chats, Amyl and the Sniffers, and more helped shape his latest EP blending punk and rave music.

“There’s always a presence of light that can break through those times of darkness,” Green shared.

The trio’s Cate Le Bon–produced sophomore album will arrive on February 14 via Matador Records.

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.