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

Grails, Miracle Music
Regaining the fast momentum with which they released their early material, the instrumental post-rockers’ ninth LP is defined by a meditative feel coursing through the songs’ proverbial veins.

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.
Will Schube

The French disco group first met Cuco backstage at Coachella in 2022.

The album’s first two singles, “Antichrist” and “Room Service,” are out now.

The soundtrack to Harmony Korine’s cult classic will be reissued on September 8 via Domino Records.

Chatten’s debut solo album Chaos For The Fly will arrive on June 30.

The festival is set for October 26-29 in Austin, Texas.

The 30th anniversary edition of Last Splash will arrive on September 22 via 4AD.

The pioneering Japanese artist’s new album is set to arrive on June 28.

The London-based singer’s debut album is out August 25 via drink sum wtr.

The album arrives on October 6 via Keeled Scales.

The track will be released as a 12” with an accompanying b-side entitled “The Challenge (Live Edit)” on August 25.

Be Good The Crazy Boys will arrive on November 10 via Western Vinyl.

The 30th anniversary edition of Phair’s breakout 1993 LP will arrive on October 20 via Matador.

Local Natives
Time Will Wait for No One will arrive July 7 courtesy of Loma Vista Recordings.

Their collaborative album To Operate This System will arrive July 26 courtesy of POW Recordings.

The track was produced by Jake Luppen of Hippo Campus and Caleb Wright.

The release will arrive July 28 courtesy of Warp Records.

Trevor Powers shares a collection of songs reflecting the themes of his new LP Heaven Is a Junkyard, as well as his immediate surroundings in his hometown of Boise, Idaho.

The Summer Odyssey run will kick off August 1 in Seattle.

The band’s North American tour will kick off September 23 in Toronto following the record’s September 1 release via Dead Oceans.

The event is scheduled for November 18 in Huntington Beach, CA.