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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Will Schube

The Dinosaur Jr. frontman also has some solo gigs coming up.

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.