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

There will also be a deluxe edition available for purchase.

The run will conclude with two shows alongside LCD Soundsystem at the Hollywood Bowl.

The three-day event is set for Forest Hills Stadium in Queens.

The singer’s Negotiations EP will arrive on May 16.

Keery’s band Djo is currently on tour with support from Post Animal.

The TV on the Radio vocalist talks finally connecting with Sub Pop for the release of his solo debut and the tragic loss that overshadowed this occasion.

The movie lists Jason Isbell among its cast.

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.