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

The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Dreams of Being Dust
The heaviness of the emo/post-rock outfit’s fifth and most metallic album isn’t just in the music this time around—it’s also in the words, themes, and intent of the record.

Teyana Taylor, Escape Room
Following a hiatus from recording, this fourth LP is a journey through the beauty and messiness of relationships that have colored the past five years of Taylor’s musical hibernation.

Cass McCombs, Interior Live Oak
Reaching the pinnacle of his songwriting acuity, the vignettes McCombs paints with his voice and guitar on his 13th album evoke a conversation between Thoreau and Nick Cave.
Will Schube

The new LP is out on August 22 via Fat Possum.

His EP of the same name will arrive on July 18.

The songwriter’s new LP will be released on August 8.

The opening reception is Saturday, June 7, from 7–10 PM.

The track marks the artist’s first music since 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen.

The LP will arrive on September 5 via 4AD.

The new LP will arrive via New West imprint Normaltown Records.

Her album of the same name will arrive on August 22, with a set of North American dates to follow in the fall.

The run includes two shows at The Orpheum in LA.

The London duo shares how The Clash, Michael Kiwanuka, Pa Salieu, and more helped them shape their sound on their second album, out this week via Dead Oceans.

The four-day fest in Austin will call Palmer Events Center home from September 25 – 28.

The LA songwriter’s new LP Pale Black Negative will arrive on June 11.

The track marks the duo’s third song together

Josh Homme will be attending in-person for the LA screening of the new film, which documents the band’s performance in the catacombs of Paris.

A trailer for the upcoming series is also out now.

Moisturizer is out July 11 via Domino.

The track follows their 2019 collaboration “El Toro Combo Meal” from the latter’s Feet of Clay EP.

The run includes three nights in New York and a show at LA’s Shrine Auditorium.

The album will arrive on June 6 via AKP Recordings.

The band’s first album in over 20 years will arrive on June 6 via Rough Trade.