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

Alex G, Headlights
Alex Giannascoli’s major-label debut earnestly embraces dated musical tropes only to turn them on their heads as they soundtrack explosions of messy emotional honesty.

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

Flooding, Object 1
The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.
Annie Lesser

St. Vincent at Corona Capital / photo by Annie Lesser
Clairo, Jack White, Green Day, Beck, Cage the Elephant, and more from the annual festival in Mexico City.

Big Freedia, Kesha, Channel Tres, Adam Lambert, and more sights and sounds from West Hollywood’s annual LGBTQ+ Pride celebration.

Pulp
The trifecta of Britpop icons performed at the annual festival in Mexico City, along with The Hives, Phoenix, Fever Ray, MUNA, and many more.

We spoke with Teragram Presents’ Michael and Brian Swier, opening night headliners Phantogram, and other figures behind LA’s new music hotspot.