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

The reason to invest in Super Deluxe “Soup” is the once-pricey “Brussels Affair” live bootleg.

This lot, quiet or loud, make for an exquisite vision of T. Rex.

The latest from the Lips is a peculiarly placid sound that only this collection of artists seem capable of making.

The Alice Coltrane–gifted pseudonym resurfaced for a third record, released last Friday.

RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event kicks off this weekend—we talked to co-creator Michael Kurtz about what to expect, as well as preview twelve releases we’re excited for.

The record’s touching maturity doesn’t always jive with the wonton ways of its flaming musicality.

Ernest Green discusses his new album “Purple Noon,” the French film that inspired it, and his newfound love for collaboration.

The 1970 set captures the band in full, frenetic death swoon.

Both new projects pull the curtain back on missed moments, eras of Cash once considered minor.

With the new Lightfoot doc premiering today, we revisit a conversation we had with the legendary songwriter earlier this year upon the release of his 21st album.

The co-founder of Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club speaks gleefully in his memoir, out today.

“Beyond the Pale” feels tight, tense, yet free, with pasty Cocker as the broodingly bittersweet centerpiece.

This Nelson isn’t bleak, but he sure comes close to it.

Remembering the iconic Italian film composer, who died this week at 91.

The singer/songwriter on love and politics, mom and dad, and his frank new album, Unfollow the Rules.

The R&B star’s lengthy new record is rife with positivist, lush, classic R&B with a ’90s revisionist twist.

The trio’s third LP sticks to piledriving and fluid rhythms while stoking their flames of melody like never before.

Dylan once again reinvents himself for his first album of original songs since 2012.

Solitude, mortality, and ascendancy make “All Things Being Equal” an unearthly delight.

Together, Bowie and Pop all but forged a raw, sketchy, true alternative sound.