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

The duo will kick off the run on April 19 in Minneapolis.

The new LP will arrive on February 28 via Fuzz Club Records.

King Stingray, Ximena Sariñana, Rawayana, and other artists from around the world reimagine the Australian group’s titular single.

The project, which may be a country album, is set to arrive on May 21.

Recorded from a 2023 concert in LA, the release also features Sam Gendel, Gabe Noel, and Tamir Barzilay.

Their new collaborative album will arrive on December 13.

Mac Miller at Camp Flog Gnaw / photo by Rozette Rago
“Given that unofficial versions of the album have circulated online for years and that releasing Balloonerism was something that Malcolm frequently expressed being important to him, we felt it most appropriate to present an official version of the project to the world.”

The band’s debut album WOOF. arrived back in September.

Renascence, the band’s first album since 2015, will arrive on January 31 via BMG.

The news was inadvertently revealed by White Iverson himself.

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.