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

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Kim March

The track arrives ahead of his latest record After the Head Rush, out June 24 via Paper Bag Records.

The neo-soul four-piece’s new single came together as the result of an improvised jam session at LA’s Sound City Studios.

Phoebe Bridgers
Bridgers will be joined by her Saddest Factory label roster as well as collaborator Christian Lee Hutson.

The sunny track arrives ahead of the Useless ID vocalist’s Young Forever LP, out next week.

KELI, the debut record from Peking Duk’s Adam Hyde, is out now via BMG.

It’s the NYC-based trio’s second single since signing to Lex Records earlier this year.

His debut solo album Floating on a Dream is out May 20 via Fantasy Records.

The Minneapolis group’s new album Moonflower arrives June 17.

The track arrives with an animated visual ahead of the Canadian songwriter’s forthcoming self-titled record.

The online music festival will take place on November 8, Election Day, for this year’s midterms.

Following a pair of summer shows in the UK, the band’s latest reveal of live dates arrives with news of their signing to Secretly Canadian.

Lily Lizotte’s fiery PURE ENERGY EP is out today via Fueled by Ramen.

The Death Cab for Cutie frontman also chats with Vanessa and Jonah Bayer about his love for Minor Threat, the beginning of his career, and more.

The single—which arrives ahead of Inkswel’s new LP The Snagglepuss: Chasing Infinity—features one of the last recordings from the late dub legend.

The anonymous LA-based duo also share a live performance video of the track.

The UK rockers’ latest single—and first with new drummer Camille Phillips—arrived earlier this month.

Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers is out May 13 via TDE.

Developed from a pandemic-instigated podcast, the collection of songs features an array of contributors including Blackalicious, Dan the Automator, and Lateef the Truthspeaker.

The single comes from Wildchild’s fourth album Omowale, out now.

Along with the label signing, the songwriter shares a video for her new track about diving back into a music career.