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

Gloin, All of your anger is actually shame (and I bet that makes you angry)
On their second album, the Toronto band taps into the fury of their post-punk forebears with a polished set of psychological insights that feel angry in all the right ways.

Great Grandpa, Patience, Moonbeam
An experiment in more collaborative songwriting, the band’s highly ambitious first album in over five years truly shines when all of its layered ideas are given proper room to breathe.

Bryan Ferry & Amelia Barratt, Loose Talk
This ghostly collaborative album with spoken-word artist Barratt finds the Roxy Music leader digging his own crates for old demos and warped melodies that went unused until now.
Kim March

The Brooklyn-based drill artist’s new project “Tactical Pressure” drops April 2.

Their follow-up to 2016’s “Bloodline” is a colossal exercise in eerie storytelling and gothic desert rock.

Ahead of the release of “TRAUMA FACTORY,” the Vermont-based artist lists 11 tracks he shreds slopes to.

Neale performs her track “Blue Vein” and Blakeslee plays through “Sometimes” on a farm in western Virginia.

Back to a solo project for Tyler Zanon, the emo-punk moniker promises another LP via Pure Noise in 2021.

The songwriter plays “Computer of Love” and “Now You Know” from his newly released “Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan!”

It’s the latest single from Wintersleep frontman Paul Murphy’s new LP, which drops March 5.

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.