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

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.

These New Puritans, Crooked Wing
The interplay of organ and voice throughout the Essex band’s fifth album creates a haunting document of the modern world wrestling for coexistence with the old world.
A.D. Amorosi

Pharoah Sanders and Floating Points have created a vintage vibe noir masterpiece for the 21st century.

“L.W.” is the fussier second half to the brutal “K.G.,” a glistening yin to its toughened yang.

On his first solo record in 30 years, Leary reconvenes Butthole Surfers–style caustic silliness.

This mini-box features fluidly funky outtakes from often-neglected album sessions, together with a mystery recording with George Harrison.

The Anglo-Franco icon discusses the ghosts that fill her recent album “Oh ! Pardon tu dormais…”

Gallo’s latest is more softcore, left-field hip-hop and gentle psychedelia than his usual punk/pop vibe.

The pair’s latest is a theatrical, diabolically abstract, and damningly depressive work with a blinding brightness at the end of the tunnel.

Younge’s bold new music/spoken word LP is his most stirring, politicized, and down-to-earth release to date.

Shaka King’s new movie examines the largely untold story of BPP Chairman Fred Hampton, whose assassination was instigated by the FBI.

Banhart walks us through his new exhibit “The Grief I Have Caused You,” which runs through March 20 in LA and virtually.

All the diversity on the oddly alluring neo-psych group’s fourth record doesn’t always make for great intrigue.

These Southern-rubbed and Philly-styled recordings open the vocalist up to a freedom she never experienced before or after.

Hall, Peter Yanowitz, and Matt Katz-Bohen on their new electronic art-rock noise record “Thanks for Coming.”

Between the reissue of his diary and the 2020 releases of his collab with brother Roger Eno and his first collection of film scores, it feels like we’re undergoing another Eno-aissance.

With a recent children’s book, a new single, and an up-coming EP, Raj Haldar proves he’s all in the family.

A deep dive into pop’s rare past with a man who made the journey bold, original, and downright frisky.

Tony Di Blasi and Robbie Chater talk collaboration, efficient songwriting, and David Berman following the release of their third LP.

This rare solo release from the Depeche Mode songwriter is memorably haunting.

The write raw-boned, ruined country anthems of “Strawberry Mansion” make it a neighborhood worth visiting.

These demos and fuller, remixed recordings show off more of the Albert-Ayler-meets-Iggy-Pop thing that Hell and his band probably intended.