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

Lorde, Virgin
The pop star retains the tainted-love throb of electro rhythm on a fourth LP that’s high on affection, low on gloss, and geared toward transcendence and sneaky sexuality.

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.
Will Schube

The band’s Sub Pop debut will arrive on September 8.

Vocalist Mike Ness was recently diagnosed with stage-one tonsil cancer.

The band shared the tracks to celebrate their run of UK and European tour dates.

Harvey’s new album I Inside the Old Year Dying will arrive July 7 via Partisan.

The full soundtrack for the A24 film—scored by Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen and Christopher Bear—will arrive this Friday, June 9.

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.