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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Connor Duffey

The Grizzly Bear member opens up about artistic insecurities, living in the countryside, and his debut solo album You Belong There.

Ramona Gonzalez discusses one of the most challenging periods of her life, which led to her most mature album as Nite Jewel, “No Sun.”

Tia Cabral makes a huge instrumental and narrative leap forward on her lush new album.

The experimental project’s mastermind discusses his path out of mental peril and his sprawling new duets album “OH NO.”

Daniel Lopatin assembles a variety of dystopian styles he’s fostered over the years while throwing in some fantastic new ones.

The Irish dance icon’s latest record is a plunge into disco hedonism that feels like a remedy to tumultuous times.

The Welsh producer and DJ discusses how creating her latest album, “Inner Song,” helped lead her out of the hardest years of her life.

Nicolás Jaar’s third album of 2020 is a beautiful and challenging ambient record that does a lot with a little.

The Big Thief drummer crafts gorgeous, discomforting soundscapes on his new solo ambient endeavor.

From shimmering guitars to grimy synths, LA Priest explores a full-spectrum sound journey on “GENE”

The godfather of hypnagogic pop discusses reissuing his earliest albums.