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

Reneé Rapp, Bite Me
The pop star’s big voice and actorly prowess help convince us that the choppy, Sapphic-punkish pop and curt, self-reproaching snipe of her second LP burrow deep into her soul.

$uicideboy$, Thy Kingdom Come
On their fifth proper LP, Ruby da Cherry and Scrim’s usually dense, trap-imbued soundscapes are open and airier, leaving more room for the duo and their guests to misery-wallow within.

Nuclear Daisies, First Taste of Heaven
The club-ready breakbeats and unrelenting experimentation on the Austin trio’s second LP serve as a deafening clarion call for humanity to get its act together before it’s too late.
Kim March

Photo by Atiba Jefferson. Background photo by Glen E. Friedman.
The filmmaker and his “Beastie Boys Story” subjects will be doing an AMA tomorrow night on Reddit.

The track comes from the Bay Area songwriter’s self-titled debut, out earlier this year.

Nelson is launching a massive live stream this afternoon in support of the Last Prisoner Project.

The third single from “To Love Is to Live” arrives with the news of a new June 12 release date.

The short film explores trauma and re-acclimation from the viewpoint of the recently incarcerated.

Vince Staples at Coachella / photo courtesy Goldenvoice
The film will be streaming for free on the festival’s YouTube channel at noon PST.

The album is out today on Drag City—here’s what Haley Fohr has to say about the songs.

The singer shares a self-made video for her debut single, out today via Domino Records.

The S1E3 “Song Machine” installment arrives with a clip of the band on the road.

Offspring of hip-hop giants Wu-Tang Clan offer up a new version of their recent single.

The LA three-piece follow up last year’s debut LP with a playful single.

The Montreal indie collective offer a second sample from their forthcoming LP “Lovers Rock.”

The 17-year-old songwriter follows up a trio of EPs with a single co-written with The Vaccines’ Justin Young.

The clip channels Russian propaganda and a chain-smoking clown.

It’s the third single from “The New Abnormal,” which drops this Friday.

CHVRCHES / photo by Daniel Cavazos
The “Love Is Dead” single gets the social distance treatment.

Photoshoot with music band Grouplove. Shot for Flood Magazine on 3.10.2020. Photographed in Los Angeles, California.
The five musicians (and one mascot) sync perfectly on the “Grouplove group chat.”

The song will appear on his latest LP, “Rock Bottom Rhapsody,” which drops next week.

7th and Red River
Titles from this year’s festival will be screened for free on Prime over a ten-day period.

The Indian-American songwriter shares his latest single from the forthcoming album “Melismatic.”