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

Billie Marten, Dog Eared
The British indie-folk songwriter’s fifth album is aided by a full-band even in its most personal moments, as Marten reflects on the indelible scenes from childhood as seen through adult eyes.

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The Kansas City trio ushers in a new kind of tenderness with an EP running the gamut from slowcore to screamo, one that’s vulnerable and violent and completely captivating.

Clipse, Let God Sort Em Out
Paired with familiar high-gloss minimalism courtesy of producer Pharrell Williams, Pusha T and Malice’s first album in 16 years stands up fairly well as an assured re-up of their rap powers.
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The jangly Georgia fourpiece soundtracks intergenerational naps in a new video probably not inspired by Harmony Korine.

The Tigers Jaw and Goth Boi Clique leader adds some dreary imagery to “Suffer On”’s first single.

With the help of a few Jenny Lewis collaborators, the LA songwriter is turning six of her strongest tracks into the So Romantic EP.

The Philadelphia psych-folk songwriter spent a week in Europe in anticipation of his latest LP. We got some highlights.

The French version of the stellar A Million and One single gets a Euro house-inspired remix.

For his latest intricate synth-pop orchestration, Talos offers up a heartfelt video—despite its dark subject matter.

You have the N.A.S.A. producer’s blessing to make babies to his latest single.

In her ACL debut, Janelle caps her landmark year with a cut from “Electric Lady.”

The Los Angeles–based chanteuse—whose debut EP will be out soon via Republic Records—recognizes that sometimes, love hurts.

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Taking a step back from his decade-spanning work with The Whigs, the songwriter unleashes his first solo album via New West Records.

It’s not quite “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” but the new video sees the UK pop duo transform in an elementary setting.

Along with the clip, the indie mainstays offer up a new set of February US dates.

Their latest single precedes their eighth record, Darker Days, due out next week.