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.
Dean Brandt

Arcade Fire / photo by Andy Sawyer
The New Orleans–based event will take place February 14.

The Massachusetts electropop trio share an elaborate clip for the “Hallucinations” single.

The Canadian emcee’s 2018 single gets a vibrant Asan Aslam–directed visual.

The surreal black-and-white video wraps up a busy year for both artists.

The ambitious young songwriter shares the latest single from the third volume of his “Djesse” project.

The AG Rojas–directed clip marks Justin Vernon’s first official music video since 2012.

The jangly LA rockers end a five-year hiatus with a tectonic new track.

In support of their fall headlining tour, the experimental psych-pop quartet gives the dancey single a video.

The sisters’ third single this year is also their third collab with Paul Thomas Anderson.

The latest single from the band’s forthcoming “Endless Dream” sees them return to the great indoors.

The downtempo single gets a video paying homage to in-studio TV performances from the ’60s and ’70s.

Josiah Mazzaschi’s bedroom pop project celebrates twenty years with another single.

King Princess, Henry Rollins, and Perry Ferrell are among the performers at the event’s LA debut.

The Spanish singer shares a new single and video to celebrate one year of “El Mar Querer.”

The power-pop single precedes a U.S. tour alongside Plain White T’s and New Politics.

The visual accompanies the rapper’s “Feet of Clay” EP, released last night at midnight.

What better place than here, etc.

The British synth-pop band took on “I’ve Seen Footage” at last night’s show in Sacramento.

Daniel Cavazos
The Abso Lutely–produced clip for the “On the Line” single features cameos from Mac DeMarco and King Tuff.

The long-awaited fourth album from Kevin Parker drops February 14 via Interscope.