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

Neko Case, Neon Grey Midnight Green
Arriving after her longest gap between solo records, Case’s eighth LP is heavy with atmospheric details and new perspective; it wonders yet never wanders.

Wednesday, Bleeds
The Asheville band’s latest set of contemporary Southern-gothic tales thrives on hyper-specific lyrical details as sweet sentimentality disarmingly gives way to visceral walls of sound.

Automatic, Is It Now?
On their polished, hopeful third album, the LA synthpop trio increases the empty sonic space as they move away from the cluttered, rough edges of lo-fi punk.
Will Schube

The release marks the 50th anniversary of the Talking Heads’ live debut at CBGB.

The new collection is set to arrive on July 18.

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.