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
Midlake, A Bridge to Far
The Denton folk-rockers’ second album since returning from a hiatus flits effortlessly between psychedelic rock, folk, and hazy jazz as Eric Pulido continues to steer the ship forward.
Khruangbin, The Universe Smiles Upon You ii
Recorded on the 10th anniversary of their debut, the trio forgoes reliving past glories in favor of quietly ruminating on what’s gone on between these two points, detonating everything in sight.
Saintseneca, Highwallow & Supermoon Songs
The cosmic Ohio band’s sprawling fifth album represents the best of the late-’00s indie-folk scene, with Zac Little proving that he very much earns his suspenders.
Will Schube
Physical editions of the 2015 project—featuring two previously unreleased bonus cuts—will arrive on July 18.
The track was originally featured on the songwriter’s latest LP, No Name.
The project will arrive on July 25 via Ruination Record Co.
The Starrr of the Queen of Life will arrive on August 1 via Sub Pop and Royal Mountain Records.
Come for the punk groove, stay for the Jojo Siwa reference.
The free shows will take place every Thursday from July 17 – August 7 at the LA cultural center.
The LA-based songwriter talks getting her debut jazz-folk-soul opus Tether “really right” after numerous false starts.
The band’s first headlining tour is set for October.
Artists featured on the LP include St. Vincent and Paramore’s Hayley Williams.
“In a lot of ways, ‘many lives’ + ‘pt ii’ is the epicenter of things we’ve been working on recently.”
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.
