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

Ivy, Traces of You
Completing songs written during sessions with late bandmate Adam Schlesinger, this collection hearkens back to the airy spirit that made Ivy such a delight at a time when it was hip to be hopeless.

Big Thief, Double Infinity
Ditching the homespun folk-rock sound of their last record for otherworldly, jazz-infused transmissions, the group’s sixth LP is obsessed with the beauty and inefficiency of language.

David Byrne, Who Is the Sky?
With the aid of Ghost Train Orchestra and Kid Harpoon, Byrne continues his trek across urban prairies to explore our goofball commonalities, the quirks of romance, and his own intimacies.
Andy Hermann

On the concept album “A Short Story About a War,” the Canadian rapper has created a world—and a war—that’ll hit close to home, wherever you are.

It’s beautiful stuff, and the hipsters are listening attentively, many with heads bowed and eyes closed, vibing out to the celestial sounds.

Via the natural collaboration of an LA-based startup and…an iconic Icelandic art-rock band (??), you can now add a surreal layer to the real world.

Annie Clark and visual artist Philippa Price designed St. Vincent’s latest tour specifically for festivals—and to make you ask, “Is this OK?”

A quarter of a century after “Last Splash,” Kim Deal recalls The Breeders’ bitter dissolution, successful reunion, and the fractured recording process resulting in the utterly cohesive “All Nerve.”

Fresh off Coachella, the young multi-instrumentalist continues to prove that his Honda is the only thing average about him.