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

Preoccupations, Ill at Ease
The Calgary post-punks couldn’t sound more comfortable in their own skin on their ironically titled fifth album, which seamlessly alternates between joyful and haunting moods.

Provoker, Mausoleum
Production from Kenny Beats heightens the LA trio’s signature gloominess on their third album of mournful 19th century gothic narratives and mirthful 1980s horror nostalgia.

Various artists, True Names: A Benefit for Trans Youth
Worry Bead Records compiles tracks from Squirrel Flower, Remember Sports, 22° Halo, and more conjuring a wistful world of lo-fi elegance while raising funds for a very worthwhile cause.
Kim March

The Australian songwriter returns less than a year after her Jim Eno–produced debut.

Senator Sanders’ Inauguration look has found itself front and center on all of your favorite album covers.

It’ll be the founding member of Danity Kane turned solo artist’s first album since 2019’s “New Breed.”

Ahead of tomorrow’s official release, you can listen to “Europa” in its entirety.

The Australian songwriter’s “Hit or Miss” is out February 3.

The folky bros’ new record arrives April 16 via Compass Records.

Hear Yorn’s take on Pixies, The Stone Roses, Simon & Garfunkel, and more.

A Boy Harsher remix of “Your Body Changes Everything” arrives ahead of the LP’s February 19 release.

The songwriter calls it “a lonely dream sequence made out of a drum machine and electric guitar.”

The songwriter also shared the new single “Hardline” today from her forthcoming LP “Little Oblivions.”

The composer shares the first single from “Yin,” set to be released later in 2021 followed by a second LP called—you guessed it—“Yang.”

“There is no place here for White Supremacy. People need each other to be truly free. Hatred will never find Freedom.”

The single features Polvo guitarist Ash Bowie, and will appear on the abstract rockers’ debut album “Volume One,” out January 22 on Don Giovanni.

from pitchfork fest 2019
Ferreira shared a lost recording of the single over the weekend in celebration of Bowie’s birthday.

Laetitia Tamko also shares plans for a live stream event scheduled for January 29.

The guitarist’s first solo album in thirty years is out February 12 via Shimmy Disc/Joyful Noise.

The songwriter performs tracks from her debut EP in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

The 24-hour streaming event kicks off at 5 p.m. PST with donations benefiting Los Angeles homeless charities.

From “Orange Is the New Black” director Rebecca Knox, the series features live music, magic, and more.

The Shudder to Think frontman brings his contribution to the “Hanukkah+” compilation to life.