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 Rolling Stones, Black and Blue [Super Deluxe Edition]
The group’s 1976 musical chairs of lead guitarists is rarely cited as anyone’s favorite Stones album, though this package reminds us that it’s among their most alive and spontaneous.
The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness [30th Anniversary Edition]
Rising above the odd brand partnerships it came paired with, this opulent quadruple-LP reissue builds off of the already-expansive source material with unearthed live recordings from the band’s creative prime.
The Notwist, Magnificent Fall
This non-chronological batch of remixes and other rarities regales in the utter joy of what must be in the brothers Achers’ heads when they spin gorgeous alchemical gold.
Will Schube
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.
The run includes two shows at The Orpheum in LA.
