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

Jack McEwan lists the psych-rock band’s top 10 influences ahead of their new record’s release.

The latest from the hypnagogic pop trio arrives March 19.

Ahead of the debut solo record from The Knocks’ Ben Ruttner, here are 12 tracks that get the artist in the disco mood.

The LA-based guitarist announces her new LP “Simple Syrup” along with the stop motion visual.

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.”