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 early-March event launched by CORE and Linda Perry will benefit mobile vaccination efforts.

The debut album from the new project of Soul Coughing’s Mike Doughty arrives March 19.

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.