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

Regal Cheer, Quite Good
At under 20 minutes, the sophomore album from the endearing Brighton duo is a jolt of punk-rock beauty, blissfully shambolic from start to finish.

Model/Actriz, Pirouette
The NYC-based project’s second album delights in its confident sense of chaos, with vocalist Cole Haden knowing full well there’s no way we’re going to avert our gaze for a single moment.

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.
Will Schube

photo by urika’s bedroom
The anonymous songwriter shares how they aim to engage the listener’s imagination with their debut solo record, Big Smile, Black Mire.

The five-track project sees the producer recruiting some of his favorite artists to rework his songs.

Recorded at Stravinsky Hall, the live album will be released on January 24.

“Leash” will be featured in the new Nicole Kidman thriller set to hit theaters on Christmas day.

James Petralli shares 10 tracks that influenced his twelfth album, which arrives this week via Bella Union.

Don’t turn this thing on before bed time.

The project’s inaugural set of dates will kick off on February 1 in Rhode Island.

Ball Arena , Denver, CO, 10-11-24
She shared that she “likes” the streaming behemoth’s year-end summary “as a concept.”

Eilish is joined by FINNEAS and a set of backing vocalists and string players on the track from her recent LP Hit Me Hard and Soft.

Co-produced by all three members of boygenius, the album will be released via Saddest Factory Records on January 17.

The collection—which also features Puma Blue, mxmtoon, grentperez, and more—will be released on April 11.

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.