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

Princess Nokia, Girls
With her fourth album of punky and provocative raps, the Nuyorican artist is once again reimagining hip-hop as a dangerous place to be.

Blawan, SickElixir
A dense, monolithic collection, the English DJ’s true speaker-blower of a second album sits somewhere between industrial techno, post-dubstep, and IDM.

Snõõper, Worldwide
The Nashville punks’ second album is less sonically gritty than previous projects, but has an added intensity largely stemming from an expanded studio band and sleeker production.
A.D. Amorosi

Gaga’s sixth album bathes her in issues of inclusivity—but did it have to make her sound like part of the crowd?

“Expect the Unexpected” pays homage to tradition and opens doors to unlimited perceptions.

The producer and songwriter-for-hire’s new project is mostly just a front for hanging out with Daniel Ledinsky.

Merritt talks Florian Schnieder, dates with Jesus, and writing songs under the 2:15 mark.

“Drip Drip Drip”is as unnervingly varied as most of the Mael brothers work—especially in the twenty-first century.

The new coffee table book on Roky Erickson’s band is out now via Anthology Editions.

Joan Wasser returns to a poignant form on her first album of deconstructed favorites in eleven years.

He’s produced for Kanye, Beyoncé, and Geto Boys—and he finally has a record of his own.

“Good Souls Better Angels” is one of Williams’ most live-wire works.

The godfather of cannabis culture on his comic past, the smoky present, and living long through Trump and COVID-19.

“Fetch” is as cold as it is overheated, as vibrant as it is humble.

“This is a record from the heart about my reconnection to the planet, and the divine existential nature of it all.”

The reissue’s added tracks are all contextual red meat—no gristle or fat.

The ambitious rapper/producer opens up about his legacy and family.

Cellist Maya Beiser and pianist Mike Garson discuss translating the artist’s work into something new.

Though he suspects he has the virus, EOB’s record remains on track for release April 17.

This album offers up some of his best performances, wryest lyrics, and most experimental arrangements in years.

The French artist is among the most influential of the disco era, and one of dance music’s first trailblazers.

A show of unity between Texan soul makers.

The sessions that fill this box are those where Davis left flirty, speedy bebop behind for slow, hard bop.