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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Will Schube

The Vancouver-based songwriter’s new LP will arrive on May 16.

The album is a free interpretation of Verzeichnis einiger Verluste, the novel by German author Judith Schalansky.

The collaborative track is out now via Warp Records.

Michelle Zauner’s new LP For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women) is out March 21.

The Canadian punks’ fifth album will arrive on May 2 via Little Dipper/Rise Records.

The month-long set of dates begins on July 15 in South Deerfield, Massachusetts.

Is will arrive on March 21 via ATO.

New single “Everything Is Peaceful Love” will arrive on Friday with a music video directed by John Wilson.

In our latest digital cover story, the LA-based songwriter details her music’s evolution into a full-band affair while bringing an equally communal focus to the open-ended subject matter explored on her proper debut album with her backing band The Attachment Theory.

The singer was known for her collaborations with The Flaming Lips before her tragic passing last year.

Only the Singer, the new album from Garcia Peoples bassist Andy Cush, will arrive on February 28.

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.