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

Dijon, Baby
On the follow-up to his 2021 debut, Dijon Duenas lays glitchy, psychedelic textures atop his familiar alt-R&B sound to evoke a fractured internet-like aesthetic that’s often mesmerizing.

Rich Brian, Where Is My Head?
The edgy but earnest Indonesian-American rapper further leans into his identity on his first album in six years, welcoming a variety of guests on his trek through self-actualization.

Marissa Nadler, New Radiations
The gothic songwriter’s latest collection of bad-dream vignettes feels like a return to the mold she was cast in as she wrestles with the current state of her country through obscured lyrics.
Kim March

The track arrives with new versions of “Caution” and “Blowback.”

The new project teams Fool’s Gold’s Nativ “Luke” Top with Malian vocalist/guitarist Baba Salah.

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.