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

Kali Uchis, Sincerely,
Moving from the synth-dembow-pop of last year’s Orquídeas to dreamy neo-soul, her fifth album sees Uchis adapt the tripling axis of joy, pain, and existential dilemma into cloudy song.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, Naturally [20th Anniversary Edition]
This 2005 modern classic of soul revivalism pulled itself up from the bootstraps of the group’s debut with a respect for nuance to match its need for pulsating grooviness.

PinkPantheress, Fancy That
The UK artist’s second mixtape features an EP’s brevity and an album’s worth of heft, all built upon breathless, sample-heavy instrumentals that form an unlikely sense of cohesion.
Kim March

James Blake / photo by Aaron Schorch
The singer passionately defended his girlfriend via Twitter.

by Joshua Mellin
Shook, not stirred.

Fourteen years after his death, an Atlanta prosecutor is on the case.

The Dublin band fronted by Paddy Hanna release a third track off their upcoming debut.

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.