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

Sufjan Stevens, Carrie & Lowell [10th Anniversary Edition]
Padded out with a personal essay, family photos, and outtakes, this re-release of Stevens’ album-length eulogy permits yet another return to the 1980s Oregon of the artist’s memory.

Alan Sparhawk, With Trampled by Turtles
Far more mournful than his solo debut from last year, the former Low member’s collaboration with the titular bluegrass band is drenched in sorrow, absence, longing, and dark devastation.

Cola Boyy, Quit to Play Chess
Despite bristling with Matthew Urango’s familiar cotton-candied disco, the late songwriter and activist’s sophomore album also opens the floodgates to everything else he seemed capable of.
Kim March

The Aussie songwriter performs the opening track to her 2017 self-titled album for her Slab Session.

The Georgia band will be touring with of Montreal this spring.

Don’t miss superstar Lil BUB at New Jersey’s Catsbury Park Cat Convention this April.

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In the new trailer, Prairie’s consciousness awakens in an alternate reality.

The Brooklyn indie-folk troupe’s third LP is set to drop May 3.

The four-hour film debuts on HBO next month.

Along with the announcement of supporting dates for Cherry Glazerr, the Boston indie trio return with a timely single.

To complement their apocalyptic sophomore record, the garage rockers compiled a playful soundtrack to the end times.

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.