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

Aminé, 13 Months of Sunshine
The emcee’s third solo album blends house, hip-hop, and the East African sun to give listeners a deeply personal look at the journeyman rapper’s Eritrean-Ethiopian heritage.

Stereolab, Instant Holograms on Metal Film
Their first new album in fifteen years spins on an axis of subtly infectious refrains and gently askew rhythms—it’s avant-garde art-pop as something radically old yet experimentally new.

Sparks, MAD!
The Mael brothers’ 26th album purrs with sincere longings dedicated to romantic splits, though ultimately remains true to the duo’s idiosyncratic melody and tongue-in-cheek lyricism.
Kim March

L’Imperatrice / photo by Gabrielle Riouah
The French space-disco collective also has a digital world tour planned for July.

It’s the second track the LA-based quartet have shared from their debut EP “Black Void,” out July 17.

The LA-based songwriter announces her new album “Get Z to a Nunnery” with the new track.

The track arrives ahead of “Floor It!!!,” out July 17 on New West Records.

The Londoners share a visual for the first single from “I Slept on the Floor,” their debut album announced earlier today.

Jack Gibson’s ballad is the latest from LaunchLeft’s Launched Artists Digital Singles Series.

The latest from the “Soccer Mommy & Friends Singles Series” sees Andrew VanWyngarden rework “circle the drain” and Sophie Allison play “Indie Rokkers.”

The June 25 performance will follow the release of her “I’m Allergic to Dogs!” EP release a day prior.

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.