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

Frankie Cosmos, Different Talking
Greta Kline’s sixth album finds her clicking with her new band, lending these songs a DIY quality reminiscent of her early demos despite digging into themes exclusive to adulthood.

BC Camplight, A Sober Conversation
The UK-via-NJ songwriter’s blackly comic neo-chamber-pop missive on sobriety still manages to speak to the upbeat without a snip of excess emotion.

Bruce Springsteen, Tracks II: The Lost Albums
This new box breaks down seven well-framed sets of sessions spanning 1983 to 2018, essentially designed as full-album capsules of mood previously deemed unfit for canonization.
Kim March

Perfume Genius / photo by Adam Maresca
Viva Vera 20 kicks off tonight at 7 p.m. PST.

The track is from the Chicago artist’s “The Leo Sun Sets” EP released in December.

An Emmanuel Adjei–directed visual arrives with an expanded version of the single originally released last spring.

Along with the performance, the U.K. songwriter breaks down his recent LP “Ekundayo” for us track by track.

The posters commemorate the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, with proceeds benefiting Planned Parenthood.

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.