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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
Jesse Cline

Del Rey revealed a July 4 release date for her second LP of 2021 called “Blue Banisters.”

Signed by Linda Perry at 12 years old, the songwriter shares another single.

Luce performs the “Dark River” opener with string accompaniment from Laura Epling and Maggie Chafee.

The single is the first taste of “Sharecropper’s Son,” out May 21 on Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound.

The NY-based alt-rockers’ latest will be co-released by Greenway Records and The Reverberation Appreciation Society.

The songwriter and comedian shares her follow up to 2019’s “Casualty.”

LYDIA LUCE
The track arrives ahead of the February 26 release of “Dark River,” as well as a newly announced virtual release show.

The Portland singer shares the first single from her forthcoming debut EP.

The gothy new-wavers plan to release the record April 16.

The up-and-coming songwriter performs the track from her recent “Kathleen II” EP in Los Angeles.

The Athens-based rockers share the latest single from “A Comedy of Errors,” which arrives March 19.

The songwriter posted the audio for a new acoustic tune last night.

The new EP follows the band’s 2004 cover of the Zombies track.

The track appeared as a B-side on the San Diego soul trio’s recent “Will I See You Again” 7-inch.

The new single arrives ahead of the songwriter’s debut, “Digital Pacific,” out February 12.

Wolfhard’s post-Calpurnia project adds to their growing track list with the help of the Atlanta indie rock group.

The NY-based rockers take their songs out West to Southern California.

The South Side Chicago org lost over $40,000 worth of donated items, from new shoes to medical supplies.

The South African songwriter performs her “No Room for Error” single in front of some dramatic greenery.

The LA songwriter filmed the set with two friends on a recent trip to the East Coast.