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

Ethel Cain, Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You
The prequel to Preacher’s Daughter helps sprawl Hayden Silas Anhedönia’s narrative out even further while dialing up the intensity of her droning slowcore/shoegaze textures.

Osees, Abomination Revealed at Last
John Dwyer has crafted his most overtly political album yet in terms of both its lyrical and musical attack, with his band’s recent linear and pared-down punk style put to enjoyably cutthroat use.

Marianne Faithfull, Cast Your Fate to the Wind: The Complete UK Decca Recordings
Reissued for the first time in this six-CD box set are the British singer’s original Decca albums, along with a double LP of singles, B-sides, and rarities from the era.
Kim March

The track, off her forthcoming album “U kin B the Sun,” is Angie Stone–inspired.

It’s the lead single from “New Me, Same Us,” out March 27.

It’ll be their first in nine long years.

Frontman Matt Shultz had the most wardrobe changes in a single show in “ACL” history.

The psych/soul blend comes off an album of the same name, out March 13 via Colemine Records.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs / photo by Luis Moreno
The Amazon Original exclusive track is available today.

“Simmer” is the first track off “PETALS FOR ARMOR,” her new album out in May.

“Traditional Techniques” will be out March 6 via Matador.

“Other Side of Town” mixes New Orleans R&B with doo-wop gang vocals in a psychedelic blender.

The 1975 at Shrine Expo Hall / photo by Joyce Jude Lee
The upcoming tour also comes with some environmental promises.

Featuring Tame Impala, Missy Elliott, Flume, Vampire Weekend, and more.

The track is off “The Turning” movie soundtrack, and is inspired in part by the late Jay Reatard.

H.E.R., Bonnie Raitt, Camila Cabello, and the Jonas Brothers will also be hitting the Grammy stage this year.

MIA at Riot Fest / photo by Brigid Gallagher
Prince William made her a Member Of The Order Of The British Empire.

Daphne Nguyen
The track is off her new EP “Stranger Heart,” due out February 14.

The event will also feature performances by Boogie and Bobby Gonz.

Including covers of “Flea Market,” “Fruit Salad,” “Hungry Hippo,” and “Hookers & Pretty Ugly.”

She’s also announced pop-up art galleries in NYC and LA to celebrate the upcoming release of “Likewise.”

Since the paper’s annual music poll has been discontinued, Glenn Boothe continues the tradition himself.

Sahara / Coachella 2015 Weekend 1 / photo by Max Sweeney
Rage Against the Machine are also headlining, practically the only rockers who made the cut.