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

Pulp, More
The Sheffield art rock ensemble’s first album in nearly 24 years still maintains their Kinks-y kitchen sink dramatics in opposition to Oasis’ Beatles-like demeanor and Blur’s operatic Who-ness.

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.
Will Schube

The duo’s new collaborative album Decay will arrive on July 21 via Backwoodz Studioz.

Owusu is gearing up for a North American fall headlining tour, which will follow his spring run supporting Paramore.

Jonny Pierce’s sixth album will arrive on October 13 via ANTI- Records.

Clementine Creevy’s fourth record will arrive on September 29 via Secretly Canadian.

The Navajo slacker-rocker’s charming debut creates a push and pull between tightly wound compositions and idly delivered performances.

Their brief fall headlining tour will also include East Coast stops in NYC, Philly, Boston, and New Haven with MUNA, Palehound, and Samia opening select shows.

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.