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

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
A.D. Amorosi

If anything was an enabler of glam pop, it was “Lola.”

JPEGMAFIA keeps it mean while on the major label tip.

The Cornell estate gifts us with 10 subtle covers focused on melodic gems with a soft ensemble as backing.

The filmmaker talks profiling MacGowan, Johnny Depp’s role in the project, and peroxide-haired ’80s punk.

By his lonesome, Richard H. Kirk is still making endearingly intrusive electronic noise with nagging catchiness in its subtle hooks

The Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman and bandmate Carina Round talk the band’s latest record, “Existential Reckoning.”

What we’re excited for on the last weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated four-part event.

Jarvis Cocker, at his home in the Peak District, UK. June 17, 2020.
Tom Jamieson for The New York Times
In support of his new concert film, Cocker recalls his slow adaptation to live performance and explains his unexpected obsession with caves.

No one’s excesses are as glorious and ornate as Elton John’s.

This recording of Cave’s tearful solo performance offers warmth, elegance, and smart solace.

The reissue of Costellos’ maximal-overdrive third LP manages to sound crisper than its original recording.

Khan’s jazz album is a logical continuation of the merry-making avant-garde that defines every other KK record.

“Knives” is the sound of a pre-pandemic band going for all the weird gusto they can.

The incendiary music-making trio from Colombia’s Caribbean coast fuse Afro-house and Indigenous rhythms with a frank, humanist political stance.

The animated four-piece host the wildest, most guest-heavy apocalyptic party since “This Is the End.”

What we’re excited for on the third weekend of RSD’s pandemic-necessitated three-part event, ahead of its November Black Friday finale.

The industrial hip-hop group’s allegorical monsters are all too real on their latest LP.

Though recorded in a pre-pandemic setting last winter, “Letter to You” feels unusually safe.

The Kentucky-born-and-bred singer-songwriter is shutting down small-minded prejudices.

Garzón-Montano has created one of the most thought-provoking and atmospheric R&B albums of 2020.