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
The Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Will Schube
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.
Sabrina Teitelbaum has announced the May 2 street date for her sophomore album, If You Asked for a Picture.
The arena run kicks off tomorrow, January 10, in Victoria, British Columbia.
