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 LP was originally crafted as the score to Anonymous Club, the 2021 documentary on Barnett.

The neo-soul songwriter’s follow-up to 2019’s Legacy! Legacy! will arrive on October 13 via Jagjaguwar.

The Hives
The band’s first album in over a decade, The Death of Randy Fitzsimmons, will arrive on August 11.

Hersh’s new album Clear Pond Road is out September 8 via Fire Records.

The Australian rapper channels Busta Rhymes and Missy Elliott on her latest single for 4AD.

The Best Coast frontperson’s debut solo album, Natural Disaster, will arrive on July 28 via Concord Records.

The new vinyl edition of their 1993 LP will arrive in October.

Their new album My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross is out July 7 on Secretly Canadian/Rough Trade.

With the release of his new album Fish Don’t Climb Trees, the Atlanta-based rapper shares how he’s achieved a new level of comfort as an emcee a decade into his career.

The Ballad of Darren will arrive on July 21.

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.