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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Will Schube

The track is the first new music from L’Rain since 2021’s Fatigue.

World of Hassle, Palomo’s debut album under his own name, will arrive September 15 via Mom+Pop.

Space Heavy will arrive June 9 via Matador Records.

The band will be performing at Glastonbury later this month.

The Nashville punks’ first record in 15 years is out August 25 courtesy of Third Man Records.

The band’s new album In Times New Roman… will arrive on June 16.

The Saddest Factory signee will return with Supermodels on July 14.

Kendrick Lamar
The song samples Bon Iver’s non-album cut “PDLIF.”

KAYTRANADA, Lil Yachty, and Remi Wolf will support on all four dates, which kick off mid-September.

Alborosie’s new album Destiny is out today.

The track will be featured on Koly’s upcoming project Feel Bad Fest.

The track is featured on River’s forthcoming LP Endless Summer.

The track is featured on ODYSSY’s new album Diamonds & Freaks.

The track is taken from an album of the same name, out in September via 4AD.

Moses Sumney / photo by Adrian Santos
The single is featured on National Geographic’s A Small Light series.

The LA-based rapper discusses sharing his own story on his debut full-length, as well as tapping into the history of West Coast hip-hop.

The final story in our three-part interview series on the future of Quality Control Music focuses on the Milwaukee emcee and her Arkansan labelmate, and includes an exclusive “Neighborhoods” performance from Lakeyah.

The second in our three-part interview series on the future of Quality Control Music hones in on two artists at the center of QC’s global vision, and features exclusive “Neighborhoods” performances from both artists.

The first in a three-part interview series on the future of Quality Control Music—the label that launched Migos, Lil Yachty, Lil Baby, and City Girls—starts at the top with a conversation with the rap-dominating label’s CEO and COO.

billy woods and ELUCID tell us how their recent record with The Alchemist came together, and share a few of their favorite Alc records.