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

Rebecca Black, Salvation
An intoxicating blend of Y2K aesthetics and bubblegum pop, Black’s second album is a celebration of her musical evolution from internet laughing stock to hyperpop powerhouse.

Hamilton Leithauser, This Side of the Island
The Walkmen vocalist finds an exquisite balance of raspy, lounge-lizard crooning and angsty art-rocking on a solo album full of distressed lyricism and black humor.

Lady Gaga, Mayhem
The pop star’s latest album is chaotic by design, blending elements from across her career to craft something you can dance to, swoon with, and don black eyeshadow for.
Kim March

Dana Foote shares how Tom Waits, Kishi Bashi, Jon Batiste, and more inspired her first new single since dropping her debut album I Am the Dog earlier this year.

The album will be released on February 2 via Island Records, and will feature previously released singles “Nothing Matters,” “Sinner,” and “My Lady of Mercy.”

After opening for hemlocke springs earlier this year, Jayden Nicole Binnix plans their debut album Forest (Monsters Live in the Trees) for release in January.

The latest single from the NYC-raised bassist and songwriter is out now via Capitol Records.

The Nashville-based songwriter’s soulful latest dropped last Friday via Soul Step Records and Trash Casual.

The Austin band’s new LP Chronicles of a Diamond is set to arrive on October 27 via ATO Records.

The Georgia-based songwriter’s debut album One Sided will drop November 10.

The melancholy track was produced by the teen songwriter’s mentor Brandi Carlile.

Coming off her supporting tour for Dua Lipa, Zouaï also shares some exclusive behind-the-scenes shots from the video’s filming in South Korea.

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The Nashville-based punks counter the serious lyrical themes of the track with a bit of silliness.

Black Bayou will arrive on October 27 via Easy Eye Sound.

Arriving ahead of the record’s October 13 release date via Loma Vista, the new tracks feature Ny Oh, Jonathan Wilson, and Big Thief’s Buck Meek.

“‘On My Mama’ is the soundtrack to positive affirmations,” said Monét.

Promising climate talks, plant-based food, and roller skating, the event will take place in West London on August 30.

The five-part series commemorating 50 years of the genre arrives via Audible.

The performance video lands ahead of the LA rockers’ late-summer Time Will Wait For No One tour.

The track arrives as a part of Honey Reimagined, a series of reworked versions of songs from Samia’s recent LP.

Shadowlands, the debut album from collaborators Raymond and Carey, is arriving September 15 via Libellule Records.

The track precedes his unannounced follow-up to 2020’s Junk LP.

The new wave icon’s sophomore solo album Realms touches down August 25 via Kill Rock Stars.