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
Florence + the Machine, Everybody Scream
After recent big swings across the pop plate, Florence Welch’s gothic sixth album gets cerebral and probing as the songwriter proves herself to be more in touch with her emotions.
Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo, In the Earth Again
Destruction and decay may be the themes explored by the unlikely collaboration of a noise-rock band and a folk guitarist, but instrumentally, they make it sound beautiful, lush, and gentle.
Soft Cell, The Art of Falling Apart [Super Deluxe Edition]
This six-disc collection expands upon the aggression, industrialism, and pernicious lyrics of the duo’s 1983 LP—a revenge, of sorts, on becoming pin-up darlings of the British new wave.
Kim March
The fest is coming to Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, CA this May.
The destruction of the Apollo Masters facility affects the vinyl industry worldwide.
The band’s merch saved 9.9 million gallons of water last year.
Off their forthcoming fourth record, “Always Tomorrow,” due out February 21.
The emo/pop-punk kings of the 2000s are back.
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.
