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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Will Schube

The NYC-based songwriter’s fourth album uses little moments of heartbreak for propulsion, with this momentum giving the album its sturdy bones.

The band’s follow-up to last year’s Time Skiffs will arrive on September 29 via Domino Records.

The band’s new album Mommy will arrive on August 25.

“The Rabbi” and “The Swan” arrive less than a week after the band’s new LP.

The album, which features Junglepussy, Soul Glo vocalist Pierce Jordan, Moor Mother, and more, is out September 29.

The band has announced release events for the singles in NYC and LA featuring exclusive merch pop-ups at both.

Youngs’ new LP Avalanche will arrive on September 22 via Yep Roc Records.

Her solo run kicks off September 4 in Washington, D.C.

Sacred Bones’ era-spanning archival collection Journey to the Moon and Beyond highlights the joy of creation as the throughline in the synth pioneer’s career.

Lætitia Tamko’s new album Sorry I Haven’t Called is out September 15 via Nonesuch Records.

The visual and track pay homage to a dearly departed turtle.

Sarah Tuzdin is also set to open for boygenius on their forthcoming tour.

The single will appear alongside another new track, “Born For Loving You,” on a 7-inch dropping October 20 via 4AD.

Young’s performance at the famed 500-capacity venue is set for September 20 as a part of a series of Roxy50 honors and events this fall.

Jon Jasper-Lawless has co-produced tracks with Joji, Daniela Andrade, Gia Margaret, and more.

everything is alive will arrive on September 1 via Dead Oceans.

After the news went viral on TikTok, Universal Music Group is offering refunds on the defective LPs.

KATHLEEN HANNA; TEES 4 TOGO
The Bikini Kill vocalist’s memoir will arrive on May 14.

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.