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 track will be featured on the duo’s 28th album, MAD!

Their new album Welcome to My Blue Sky will arrive on April 4 via Polyvinyl.

Send a Prayer My Way will arrive on April 18 via Matador.

The expanded edition of the producer’s second solo LP is out now.

The new single “Drop” lands ahead of the album’s release on April 18 via Sub Pop.

The Philly-reared artist talks his Fat Possum label debut Goyard Ibn Said and leaning into his growing circle of industry peers.

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.