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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Alison Story

Jack White and company get weird in Japan for the forthcoming “Help Us Stranger” full-length.

The clip is for the title track of Elsa Carvajal’s new full-length album.

Wonder-Twin powers activate in the form of a new club anthem.

Sharon Van Etten / photo by Adrian Santos
The two indie powerhouses will come together for a handful of U.S. concerts.

Just when you thought you couldn’t love her any more, she launches her very own line of pre-rolled joints.

The young singer-songwriter already has over a million streams on Spotify for the song and remix. Watch the new music video.

The eleven-song set was captured at the University of Alabama with band Stray Gators.

The pop queen will make her big-screen live action debut in the upcoming strippers-gone-wild film.

Billie Eilish / photo by Adrian Santos
Maggie Rogers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil Wayne, and Toto will also rock the Vegas fall music fest.

“The song is about finding space in the noise and cacophony of distractions in our lives today.”

It’s X-rated from the opening line. This remix is strictly for mature audiences.

Two Austin couples come together to make beautiful dream pop.

The “Online Boutique for the Misfits & Miss Legits” gets real for the California desert festival.

The Swedish pop sensation reveals a new slew of summer shows.

Lykke Li / Photo by Alix Spence
Courtney Love, Megan Thee Stallion, and Charli XCX will appear at Los Angeles Historic State Park in June.

“‘Ghost Writer’ is a song trying to come to terms with how being a parent influences you.”

Kansas City kids lead by example with thoughtful and profound pop.

FKA twigs at Pitchfork Music Festival / photo by James Richards IV
Rosalía, Teyana Taylor, and Holly Herndon are part of the eclectic lineup.

Van Etten performed “Comeback Kid” live on TV for the first time, and Patti Smith’s influence was all over it.

OG rave legends return with a new song, the fastest remix of all-time, and the most interesting puppy in the world.