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

Wisp, If Not Winter
Natalie Lu’s debut leans into the “pop” side of dream pop, exploring the double-edged sword of yearning with big builds and a combination of delicacy and pummeling sound.

The Armed, The Future Is Here and Everything Needs to Be Destroyed
The Detroit punks’ sixth album is a consistent, melodic post-hardcore assault, maintaining a relentless pummeling in defiance to the system as much as it is to their recent pop streak.

OK Cool, Chit Chat
The Chicago duo pull the strings taut on their emo-pop debut, adding piano passages, guitar theatrics, and other flourishes to their established college-radio-rock sound.
Kim March

Ms. Lauryn Hill
The event will stream this Saturday in support of Black- and minority-owned small businesses.

The Allstars are also announcing a new album of the same name, dropping July 3.

Questlove, Black Thought, and Michelle Obama will host the live stream event on June 27.

The Swedish pop-rockers’ first album in seven years gets explained by Fredrik Blond.

It’s the latest single from the songwriter’s forthcoming “Bad Vacation,” out July 24.

Dave Grohl, Beck, Jim James, and more join the Jazz Band for a June 20 event raising funds for COVID relief.

It’s the second of three singles promised for 2020 by the Montreal quartet.

The anonymous street artist’s installation piece involves dragging the disgraced statue of a slave trader out of the harbor.

The pair of singles arrive ahead of the duo’s A Night for Austin performance tomorrow night.

The songwriter remixes her own 2017 track for the Launched Artists Digital Singles Series.

The SoCal punks share a video for the first single from their forthcoming record “The Ride.”

The songwriter also breaks down “The Youth of Angst” prior to EP’s official release this Friday.

The full record drops this Friday, June 5.

Saturday’s “Wunna” release party turned into a benefit raising funds for the Official George Floyd Memorial Fund.

The Lips’ first new music of 2020 arrives with a dramatic video.

The Aussie pop group share a reflective new single and a micro-dosed visual.

The Vermont-based songwriter recreates a personal routine in her new clip.

The brothers shared their first single “Give Love to Get Some,” which features Leven Kali.

André Benjamin turned 45 today—the New Orleans collective commemorate the occasion with a soulful new single.

A week after dropping his debut EP, the 19-year-old songwriter shares a clip from one of his last live shows.