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

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.

Gelli Haha, Switcheroo
The songwriter’s debut is carefree, sleazy, fundamentally arresting dance music—a multi-sensory circus serving to wallpaper the halls of dance-pop history with neon, acid-tinged nonsense.

Wavves, Spun
The LA band’s eighth LP eschews distortion in favor of a cleaner pop-punk sound that both spotlights Nathan Williams’ songwriting chops and dulls the project’s compelling eccentricities.
Kim March

“Wendy” will appear on the songwriter’s sophomore LP Beneath the Brightest Smiles, arriving June 23 on Jullian Records.

The Jonathan Rado–produced single preceded the German group’s US live debut at SXSW last month.

Jonathan Visger’s latest chapter incorporates a multimedia approach to vintage horror aesthetics.

The Australian singer’s debut album is out now via BunBun/BMG

Eyes of Glass will be released May 19 via KRO Records.

The single arrives with a Call Me by Your Name–inspired visual ahead of King’s opening set for Anna of the North at LA’s El Rey Theatre later this week.

A visual for “HIMBO” and “God’s Lonely Man” arrives ahead of the record’s May 19 release.

Originally released earlier this month, the single is the first new music from the duo since signing with Elektra Records.

The event will run from May 31 through July 2 across various venues in NYC.

The track arrives ahead of the Brooklyn-based songwriter’s latest record, Natural.

The cathartic single follows the Minneapolis trio’s signing to Big Loud Rock.

Before the album officially drops tomorrow, vocalist Joedin Morelock shares a track-by-track breakdown with us.

The bassist and funk songwriter’s debut album Lotus Glow drops this Friday via Unity Group.

The UK-based songwriter’s debut EP Hookey is set to arrive March 24 via Secretly Canadian.

Produced by Butthole Surfers’ Paul Leary and featuring Renée Zellweger, the filmmaker/musician’s new LP Texas Radio arrives March 17.

My Morning Jacket
The Beach Boys, Janet Jackson, and Jill Scott will also be among the artists performing at the iconic LA venue later this year.

The Sharon Van Etten–featuring single from Strays gets a glossy, Risky Business–referencing visual.

Caroline Polachek
The original tune, “Welcome to My Island,” will appear on Polachek’s forthcoming album Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.

The original track appeared on Björk’s most recent album Fossora, released last September.

The songwriter and producer’s latest track is a glimpse into the new era of her career.