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

M(h)aol, Something Soft
On their second LP, the Dublin trio weave through belligerent post-punk and quasi-industrial aesthetics, manipulating song structures and having fun with atonal soundscapes.

Ezra Furman, Goodbye Small Head
A glitchy folk-punk opera like a pastoral take on Lou Reed’s Berlin, the songwriter’s quivering-yet-empowered latest sees her knocked down—but never knocked out.

Youth Code, Yours, with Malice
The EBM duo continues to test new waters with their debut EP for metalcore label Sumerian, inviting experimentation on each of these five bone-rattling recordings.
Dean Brandt

The Orange County duo dial it back another decade in their latest video.

The absurdist Aussie and his trusted saxophonist strip down a track off Cameron’s debut.

Come for a flask of Henny, stay for the psychedelic vibes.

Natalie Carol and company spread out on the fourth single released from their upcoming Supergiant LP.

The Detroit emcee and his DC cohorts hit the Slab with a pair of jazz-laced beats to match Milk’s singular, insouciant flow.

Whether you’ve been following the band since 2009’s Songbook or you fell for their lilting melodies as one of the…

The LA-based songwriter brings her band to Oregon for an upbeat performance of the sunny single.

Ghost Note (Photo by Todd Cooper)
The Grammy-winning percussion duo crams an entire set’s worth of energy into five minutes with the help of some friends.

The British electronic band is back after seven years with a song about the beast within us all.

The Canadian funktronica duo resurrects their catchy 2014 single for a passionate in-studio performance.

The title track from the LA-based neo-R&B singer’s forthcoming EP is as woozy as it is danceable.

The LA R&B star goes Drake-less on an intimate performance of his 2014 smash.

It’s the first single from Dave 1 and P-Thugg’s upcoming fifth LP Head Over Heels.

The LA duo experiment with dated technology to roll in their new EP, Heavy Sunshine.

Kicking off the new batch of Happy Valley live performances with a bang.

As well as “Ordinary Day,” from “Popular Manipulations.”

photo by Antje Taiga Jandrig
Epicycle finds her taking on classical pieces from throughout history.

The Allah-Las/Jacco Gardner associate gets kosmiche.

photo by Chona Kassinger
The touring member of Perfume Genius sets his song to simmer.

photo by Jaclyn Campanaro
The Death Cab for Cutie sideman demonstrates his “Emotional Freedom Technique.”