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

Car Seat Headrest, The Scholars
Channeling Ziggy Stardust’s glam transcendence, Will Toledo resurrects the album as a grandiose narrative vehicle while marking his valiant stride into the rock canon.

Andy Bell, Ten Crowns
The Erasure frontman works out something open and anthemic on his latest solo album, with producer Dave Audé adding subtler shades to his post-house pop mix.

Viagra Boys, viagr aboys
The Swedish post-punks’ fourth album combines half-assed humor with half-assed performances, filling in the void left by guitar-centric punk with demented synth tinkering.
Will Schube

The new version of their 2024 LP features three new songs.

A live version of unreleased single “Happiness” is out now.

The collection will arrive on May 2.

The event is set for Merriweather Post Pavilion from September 26 – 28.

Subtitled “Dancefloor Seductions From Italian Sexploitation Cinema,” the new boxset features rare and never-before-released tracks from 1970s and early-’80s deepcut films.

Out now via Hausu Mountain, the experimental release is dedicated to his late grandmother and all the other Glorias of the world.

Depeche Mode: M will arrive in theaters later this year.

First single “Spike Island” is out now.

“Tomatoes” and “Bullshit” precede the May 2 release date for the songwriter’s third LP.

“The lyrics are an action against that title,” explained bandleader Shirley Manson.

The duo will also be screening the accompanying film in LA on May 8 with an event sponsored by FLOOD.

Their new album Land’s End Eternal will arrive on May 9 via Leaving Records.

A video for the project’s first single, “Aerial Troubles,” is out now.

The pop-hardcore group’s fourth LP will arrive on June 6.

Her new LP If You Asked For a Picture will arrive on May 2.

The accompanying visual was shot on 35mm.

The rapper’s new LP—which features Lupe Fiasco, Open Mike Eagle, Armand Hammer, and more—will arrive on May 30 via Rhymesayers.

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The Kentuckian’s new album will arrive on June 20.

The group’s debut arrived back in 2022.

The project features production from Mike D and Josh Homme.