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

The collection was organized by Kevin Haskins and Nick Launay.

First single “Earth 1” arrives with a music video directed by bandleader Ruban Nielson.

The original version of the track was featured on the singer’s 2024 EP Sophcore.

TORRES and Julien Baker will join the band at Red Rocks in May.

Local Natives, Dawes, Madi Diaz, The War on Drugs, Interpol, Toro y Moi, My Morning Jacket, and many more contributed songs to the collection, which will be available for 24 hours only this Friday.

Out now via Stones Throw, the soul icon’s third solo record was produced by Nick Hakim and features recent collaborator John Carroll Kirby.

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.