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

Glixen, Quiet Pleasures
Compelling yet uneven, the strongest compositions on the Phoenix shoegazers’ sophomore EP are often also the most experimental.

Anxious, Bambi
Calling back to the “big swing” pop-punk records from the turn of the millennium, the Connecticut band’s sophomore release is emotionally intelligent and impressively fine-tuned.

Patterson Hood, Exploding Trees & Airplane Screams
The Drive-By Truckers frontman’s first solo album in over a decade both softens and complicates the alt-country band’s barroom-rock formula, distinguishing itself to mixed results.
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.