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

Mortal Primetime will be released on April 25.

Co-produced by Rostam, the track will appear on SASAMI’s forthcoming LP Blood on the Silver Screen.

The cult blues-rock figure breaks down his collaboration with Kenny Segal—and first album in eight years—for us track by track.

Their new album Viagr Aboys (sic) will be released on April 25.

The track is set to be featured on Every Dawn’s a Mountain, out on March 21.

Other exciting acts scheduled to perform on the weekend of April 25 include Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Geordie Greep, and SASAMI.

The new project is a collection of studio versions of songs from the band’s 2023 tour.

All proceeds from “Don’t Look Down” will go to LA wildfire relief.

Ahead of Getting Into Heaven’s May 23 release, the songwriter is also sharing an exclusive photoshoot taken behind the scenes of her new single’s video.

The shows at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum are set for January 30.

The latest signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory discusses becoming a role model for trans women and working with all three members of boygenius in the studio.

The run supporting the Portishead singer’s 2024 debut Lives Outgrown will kick off March 29 in Philadelphia.

Produced by Blake Mills, Mike Hadreas’ seventh LP will arrive on March 28 via Matador.

Forever Is a Feeling is set to arrive on March 28 via Geffen Records.

Jim James and co.’s tenth album, Is, will arrive on March 21 via ATO Records.

The fundraiser is set for January 29 at The Bellweather.

All proceeds will benefit California Wildfire relief efforts.

This year’s slate of artists was revealed on an LA billboard, despite no official announcement from the festival itself.

The songwriter’s third album will arrive on April 25 via Grand Jury Music.

The fest is set for June 6 – 8 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens.