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

Other artists set to perform in Austin on October 31 and November 1 include Black Moth Super Rainbow, Black Lips, and Lightning Bolt.

Born from the ashes of 2000s LA art-punks The Mae Shi, frontman Tim Byron coyly details that outfit’s next chapter.

Tariq Al-Sabir and Eva Tolkin also appear on Dev Hynes’ first new track in three years.

The duo’s sophomore LP will arrive on August 22.

The project will arrive on August 1 via Interscope Records.

The songwriter’s latest project will arrive via his own label on August 22.

Both songs were originally featured on the band’s 2025 LP The Human Fear.

Moor Mother and SPELLLING are also set to perform at the September 13 show at Under the K Bridge Park.

The duo’s Colorfield Records album will arrive on July 11.

The band’s drink sum wtr debut will arrive on October 3.

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.”