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

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Phantom Island
The Australian band’s growing comfort performing with orchestra musicians results in a bolder, brighter, more engaging, and more direct album than its predecessor.

Murder by Death, Egg & Dart
Each song on the Louisville-based gothic-Americana band’s final album is its own requiem, a tender farewell accepting of its fate.

The Bug Club, Very Human Features
Another collection of relentlessly charming and eccentric garage rock, this fifth album doubles down on the Welsh band’s signature stylized-raw production and unusual lyrics.
Will Schube

Come for 38 new songs, stay for the tremendous album art.

The CHVRCHES vocalist shares how she aimed for a more biting, character-driven narrative to her newly released solo debut.

The show is set for February 14 at the Masonic Lodge.

Pulp
The label has managed the group for over 30 years.

Another recent exhibit from the renegade artist was recently damaged.

The duo debuted the new collaborative track ahead of their show in NYC tonight.

The music portion of the Texas tradition is set for March 10 – 15.

Set for December 15, the virtual show will see the rapper formerly known as Mos Def debuting his first new solo music in five years.

The Australian duo will begin the run on April 23 in Detroit.

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.