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

The Hives, The Hives Forever Forever The Hives
The Swedish garage-rockers’ seventh album feels lean and mean from the jump, with their lovable braggadocio bursting at the seams on what feels like another fiery debut.

Margo Price, Hard Headed Woman
For every tender moment on the country artist’s fifth album there’s one of wind-blow abandon, a yin and yang that complements her split allegiance to the genre’s rich history and the present day.

Wolf Alice, The Clearing
A ’70s-inspired yet undeniably timeless pop-rock record, the London quartet’s major-label debut marks a refreshing return to serenely emotional balladry.
Kim March

This Valentine’s Day, Lizzo has blessed us with the title track from her anticipated debut.

Hailing from Norway, the three-piece serve up ten tracks recalling last decade’s dream pop revival.

I don’t think I want a friend like Will Smith.

The LA songwriter shares a video for the jangly track from his upcoming Bar/None debut.

The Jim James–produced single is the latest teaser for the LA psych pop band’s debut LP.

The Liverpool four-piece’s third album What’s It Like Over There? is due out in April.

The indie three-piece follow up last year’s Spring EP with Nothing Happens, out March 22 on Atlantic.

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard / photo by Kirby Gladstein
The shape-shifting Australian psych act swap their gratuitous guitars for gratuitous keyboards.

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.